Description
Full color 9 1/2″ x 14″ ad for their Parker 61 pen. The headline claims it is “Dramatically new…the only fountain pen that fills itself by itself…it has no moving parts!”. There is a picture taken straight from a science fiction book that shows a faraway world with a flat surface and a darkened planet on the horizon. Lined up on this flat surface are two rocket ships prepared to launch, a third one that is in the process of blasting off and a gold and red Parker 61 pen looking just as modern as the ships that travel from one world to the next. The caption claims it is “Unlike any pen in this world…or any other!” and the text tries to describe how it fills itself and how it writes and mentions a price of $20.00 or more. This ad is larger than my scanner bed so the outer edges of the ad will not be visible in the scanned view.
Source: March 18, 1957 Life magazine.
