I bought it from eBay for I think £4 and it came in a plastic gift box. I'm normally very anti-fake and would have consigned it to the dustbin (having first come into close contact with the heel of my boot!) but I actually have it sitting on my desk if I need to grab a pen in a hurry. So I have a red Parker Jotter (ballpoint) and Im wary it may be a replica. Having said all that, once filled, it writes really well and will even sit happily for over a week and then start up instantly without any issues at all. Checking a well known cheap "Chinese pen sellers" site afterwards I found the exact same 'Parker' for even less than I paid. The Parker Pen Company is a French manufacturer of luxury writing pens, founded in 1888 by George Safford Parker in Janesville, Wisconsin, United States. I'd suggest that the copies/fakes are so good that it would be very hard to spot without having the pen in your hand. it wasn't until I went over it with a loupe that I spotted a few faults (stamping on the cap band, and the fit of the arrow on the cap being the main ones). I still wasn't sure when it first arrived - original-looking Parker markings, good solid weight, good looking nib, really well put together with close tolerances, even the converter was correctly marked up and seemed o.k. They certainly do fake Parkers - without doing much research, I picked up a (very) cheap Parker Sonnet on the well known auction site - price made me suspicious, but thinking I might get a bargain if it was genuine, I went for it.
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