It came from a parts lot and its condition is, frankly, terrible. No clip, broken barrel, cracks in the cap -- but unusual enough to be worth documenting.
While in most respects it is a standard Duofold Senior Deluxe, it lacks the expected Duofold imprint, instead bearing a generic Parker imprint with a date code indicating production in the first quarter of 1935.
The nib is also not a Duofold nib, though it is of the same size. Instead, it is a #7 Lucky Curve -- the usual nib found on these uncommon non-Duofold Duofolds. The feed is a comb feed, of the type factory-fitted to later-production Duofolds.
Parker continued to provide unusual variants to the Wisconsin Legislature into the 1940s, with examples noted in Facebook posts here and here.
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