[birder]

Thanks C9B and Elliott, here is a new box, is from the Parker Duofold of 1921, the "Big Red" a pen that really launched Parker into the big leagues of Waterman and Sheaffer, I don't have one, but is a really cool box, would have been my first if I did have a Duofold, however their demand is a bit above my interest in this one (so far). Interestingly it was a sales rep for Parker that pushed for a red version of the black hardened rubber pen that Parker was already making, in a time of almost entirely black pens, that launched this pen in 1920-21. I think the address on the box is for sending your pen back to the manufacturer for repair, as the major companies all offered extended warranties. Sheaffer "lifetime" was initially the "white dot" of the Sheaffer company for example.