1911 didn't see quite as much change in the Parker line of pens as the year before, but one great addition to the Parker line was the "Aztec" pen. George Parker tells in a 1911 Sidetalk how he went to Santa Fe in New Mexico and visited the Archeological institute of America. There he found "the most wonderful collection of Indian and Aztec relics" he ever saw. In one room he saw "a most peculiar design of early Aztec designing". He was told that it was the Aztec emblem of mystic power, the preserver of life and the guardian of spring an streams. Parker promptly secured the rights to copy the design. Back home in the US he had a silver smith reproduce the pattern at it was used on the new pen.