Do the earliest Parker 75 sterling grid pens have the flat end tassies?
February 26, 2001 A lot of people think that the flat tassies were placed on the 75s only during the first year of production. I believe this to be a mistake as these flat end tassies were used through the 1960s. Only around 1970 did Parker drop these flat tassies in favor of the dished tassie, which was indented and filled with a flat gold-washed disc. At around the same time, Parker also replaced the section collar so that it omitted the zero reference inscription, changed the clip to have the larger arrowhead, and widened the cap band. As proof, just take a look at the advertising picturing the 75s. Even in early 1970s, there were still ads showing 75s with the early clips, smaller capband, and presumably the flat end tassies. Also the great numbers of such flat-top 75s refute the theory that these were from the first-year of production One thing is certain, however. The earliest 75s had sections with metal threads. This was quickly replaced with an all-plastic section, probably som
