Somewhere along the line, I learned that Parker called these the Parker 100 - not to be confused with the company’s recent recycling of that number about 10 years ago. I meant to mention that here, and I was so convinced I had done so that when it came up in an online discussion a couple years ago, I tore my hair out trying to find where I’d written about it.
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Thank you, Jon and Michael. I've been calling these 100s as well, I *thought* based on something you, Jon, had written.
ReplyDeleteAn eBay listing I saw a couple of days ago, from a seller purportedly in Janesville, insisted that these were called "WORK" pencils and suggested that they were only available to Parker factory staff.
I wonder where that came from ...