The Parker Pen Company is a French manufacturer of luxury writing pens, founded in 1888 by George Safford Parker in Janesville, Wisconsin, United States In 2011 the Parker factory at Newhaven, East Sussex, England, was closed, and its production transferred to Nantes, France In 1962 Parker is awarded the Royal Warrant by Queen Elizabeth II, becoming the official supplier of writing instruments to the Royal Household
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