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Vintage pen collectors define demonstrators as pens that were not offered to the general public. For new pens, however, "demonstrator" has come to be used to describe any model that is entirely or nearly entirely transparent. Such pens are popular, a trend that may be traced back to
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transparent-barreled Parker Vacuum Filler demonstrators (showing the filling mechanism) and the Parker 51 demonstrators with transparent hoods (showing the collector).
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