Saturday, June 30, 2012

Beating the Heat

If we Ohioans didn't have such a collective short term memory, no one would live here anymore.  See, once the leaves are down in the fall, most days from November until April are grey, wet and cold -- not usually so cold that it snows, mind you, but 38 degrees and raining is pretty typical.   The weather gets really nice in late spring, and then a month later we've forgotten all about how much we were complaining about the cold and we are complaining about the heat!

In honor of one of the more blistering Junes we've had around here for awhile, here's a couple of neat little pencils . . .

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Friday, June 29, 2012

Man on a Mission

I've been on a bit of a mission lately to fill in the gaps in my Eversharp collection, so I've been making a point to check my collection when I see an Eversharp in what looks like a common color.

When this one came along in an online auction, I was surprised to see that I didn't have it. 

So I swooped in.  This is an Equipoised "clasp pencil", and for whatever reason a plain old black and pearl example had eluded me until this point.  These frequently slip under the radar, because other than a faint imprint on the barrel, only the shape and the unique clip give its identity away . . .

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Thursday, June 28, 2012

The "Other" Stuff Edgar Had

After my initial purchase of Edgar Nichols' Tri-point collection, Bill Adams contacted me a few weeks later to tell me that he had finished sorting through the rest of Edgar's things, and there were a bunch of other pencils in there, mostly other Nichols Products Corp. things, but with some other odds and ends in there as well.  He sent me some pictures, we haggled lightly, and I brought the rest back.  I just couldn't bear the thought of breaking up this group, and fortunately for me I don't think Bill could, either.

Here's one of the non-Nichols pencils that was in there . . .

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Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Methodically Collecting Eversharps

Catalogue readers, if you check on page 84, you'll see this picture of a "Gregg"pencil.

This example should look familiar: it's a clipless Wahl Eversharp Equipoised (but Wahl didn't make a clipless Equipoised), made from mottled hard rubber (but Wahl didn't make the Equipoised in hard rubber).

The Gregg logo is the only marking on this pencil; the Wahl name is completely absent.  Gregg Shorthand, devised by John Robert Gregg in the late 1800s, was widely used and franchised in the late 1920s and 1930s, and a pen which carried the Gregg logo supposedly also carried with it sufficient ink flow for a secretary adept in the method to take dictation without fear of the pen skipping. 

Of course, that doesn't make any sense when it comes to pencils, because a pencil will leave a graphite trail as quickly as you can move your hand!  In that respect, maybe this example makes a bit more sense . ..

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Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Perhaps they do deserve a sterling reputation!

The Eversharp "Ventura" series appears on page 78 of The Catalogue.  Introduced in 1953, the Ventura was Eversharp's last attempt to produce a quality writing instrument before the company was sold to Parker in 1957.  (Note: the company did produced a lot of writing instruments that lacked quality during this period.)  

By the time the Ventura was introduced, most of Eversharp's quality marketing personnel must have already jumped ship, because when this new flagship line was introduced, Eversharp ads of the day called it the "Burp" pen -- now there's an image that calls prestige and quality to mind!  Had the company survived any longer, they might have been hocking the "fart" pen . . . anyway . . .

Here's the shot of the gold filled examples of Ventura pencils shown in The Catalogue . . .

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Monday, June 25, 2012

To - maaah - to

Recently I found a really neat pencil in a bunch that I got off of an online auction.  It wasn't the one I was targeting, but every bit as good.

And it reminded me of a funny story from right after The Catalogue was published.  I received an email scolding me for something I had written on page 62, concerning what I called the "Eversharp-Autopoint hybrids" . . .

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Sunday, June 24, 2012

What Sort of Jewel . . . Diamonds, Perhaps?

I've seen a few "Jeweltone" pencils over the years, always in blue, but until recently I never quite ponied up enough to bring one home.   That changed a little while ago, when this one was a sleeper in an online auction. 

The quality on these isn't the best. The plating is very thin, and they are your typical middle joint, nose drive pencil, although the plastic is really outstanding . . .

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Saturday, June 23, 2012

Tying up a few loose ends

I wasn't very satisfied with the ending to my article on Charles Walpuski's "ordinary form of pencil," the "Sun Pocket Pencil" (March 19).  I kept having one of those nagging feelings that there was an obvious answer out there that I was missing.

Yep.  There was an obvious answer out there, and I was in fact missing it.  

I suspected the Sun was an Eagle product.  I was sure it was an Eagle product.  But at the time, all I could say was I was pretty sure.  Or almost pretty sure.

Turns out, all I had to do was quit looking, and quite by accident the answer poked out of the bushes and mooned me.  While I was looking for something else, I stumbled across an expired trademark:

The trademark was filed on April 28, 1905, by . . . drum roll . . . the Eagle Pencil Company, which claimed it first used this mark in 1869 (eight years before Walpuski's patent -- which was only for the lead itself -- was issued).  So, case closed on that one, and I've now added an index entry to the "Sun" under Eagle.

And speaking of the copying lead that was the subject of Walpuski's patent, a couple months ago I found this bunch of Eagle copying lead in an online auction . . .

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Friday, June 22, 2012

To Revitalize a Craig

Not long ago, I bid on a bunch of pencils in an online auction hoping that this would be what I thought it was.

And it was . . . mostly.  Yes, it is a Craig, one of Sheaffer's subbrands and scarce as hen's teeth to come by, but when I cut off the large, gawky eraser that someone had stuck on the top of it I found . . . nothing . . .

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Thursday, June 21, 2012

Pearlie Update: We Were Closer Than We Knew!

Sheaffer "Pearlies" are an area that could form the basis of a collection all its own.  Even though I've probably got waaay more than a normal person would, I've still managed to pick up a few that are worthy of mention.   The first came to me from Matt McColm.

Although it is easy to mix and match caps and come up with whatever color variations you want, the red white and blue combination is found in Sheaffer catalogs and advertisements from the early 1940s.  Matt and I are both sure there's a story behind the logo found on the back of the upper barrel, but neither of us has been able to put our finger on it . . .

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Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Top-O-Matic?

Here's a nifty little find from Chicago.

This is a clutch pencil with a painted metal barrel, and it strongly resembles the Lovejoy patent design that was used on some Moore, Eversharp and Dur-O-Lite pencils, but it might be different on the inside -- I haven't been able to get it apart.  The pencil sports a Listo accommodation clip, but the clip may or may not be original to this pencil. . .

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Tuesday, June 19, 2012

The Only Thing I Accomplished That Day

Here's a group of Roller Rule pencils, as illustrated at page 130 of The Catalogue.

What's bugged me about the Roller Rule for a long time is that I haven't been able to track down the patent for it.  Unlike most patented doohickeys, the Roller Rule doesn't have either a patent number on it or the patent date.

A few weeks ago I had one of those days at work -- the kind of day where I worked really hard, all day long, and at the end I felt like I got absolutely nothing accomplished.  No bad guys were beaten, no good guys vindicated, and tomorrow I'd start all over again in exactly the same place.

That, in my book, is exactly the kind of day hobbies are made for.  I decided that I was going to accomplish something that day -- just one thing.   And that one thing was going to be figuring out who invented the Roller Rule. 

I'd started, of course, with George Kovalenko's book, but nothing in there fit the bill.  Besides, since the measuring unit doesn't necessarily have to be in a pencil, it might not be indexed as a pencil patent.  So I thought to myself, "what would Kirchheimer do?"   

Daniel Kirchheimer plays with words.  So I started playing, putting different words into the search engine to see what came out.   Ruler . . . rolling . . . measuring . . . attachment . . . bingo!

Indexed in category number 33 (not 401, where the pencils are) was patent number 1,599,680, which was issued to one John Hoe Morehead of Clarkdale, Arizona on September 14, 1926 . . .

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Monday, June 18, 2012

The Eversharp Skyline Press Clip V

On page 76 of The Catalogue, at frame 43 I picture a few Skyline Press Clip Oddballs, and the demi-sized pencil below is the fourth one from the right.  Now that I've found a full-sized example to go with it, I don't quite think it just a fluke anymore. 

These have no trim ring at the top, like the Press Clip IV, but they have a middle ring, like the Press Clip II. 

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Sunday, June 17, 2012

One Last Tri-point . . . Literally

The last of the Tri-points to come out of Edgar Nichols' estate was this example. 

In a lot of ways, this looks like the Tri-point pictured in Edgar Nichols' original patent application of 1927:  the slimmer profile and flatter top all figure nicely into the original design.  However, the buttons are the later style larger buttons, and the clip is unmarked and very streamlined, lacking any trace of a ball at the end . . .

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Saturday, June 16, 2012

They Didn't Only Make One

I have had to tell myself this more times than I can count.   I'll see something interesting, but the price is more than I want to pay (or the effort to weedle it away from its owner seems insurmountable), and all I can do is think to myself:

There's got to be more of these out there.  They didn't make only one . . . they didn't make only one . . . they didn't make only one . . .

And then I click my heels together three times and I'm no longer frothing at the mouth.  We're back in Kansas (or Ohio) now, Toto.

When Michael Little and I were discussing his Nichols Tri-point in Chicago, with the built-in magnifier (see my article on May 10), I had to do the same thing.  It was a super cool find, so I made him an offer and he said no.  So I asked him whether the offer was too low or whether he just wanted to keep it, and he said he wanted to keep it.   So I needed to respect that.

Click.  Click.  Click.  No, I wasn't wearing sparkly red shoes, but it did the trick anyway.  And we moved on.

(Turns out Michael just needed a night to think about how much he'd spent during "Hobanpalooza" that day  -- next day Michael's Tri-point was on its way back to Ohio.)

Still, the thought that there might be a few more of these Tri-point magnifier pencils out there yet to be discovered was a handy trick during those dark moments when I really wanted to bring it home but knew that it wasn't going to happen.  And it would have been even easier to walk away had I thought things like this were out there . . .

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Friday, June 15, 2012

Now Here's What I'm Used to Seeing . . . Or Is It?

The next group of Tri-points in the collection are along the lines that are pictured in The Catalogue, and what you would "normally" see when you find one.  Note the flat ball clips with hyphenated "Tri-Point" lettering . . .

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Thursday, June 14, 2012

More Clues

Yesterday, I was trying to pinpoint when the ball-clip Tri-points might have been made.  There was one more example of these in the bunch which answers these questions . . .

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Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Picking up Steam

This next group of Nichols Tri-Points look more like the ones I've been familiar with.

Note that the buttons are larger and have more detail, and the bottom of the channels has a hook at the end, so the slider locks more securely into place . . .

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Tuesday, June 12, 2012

The "Pencil in Chief"

The next group of Nichols Tri-points that came from the estate of Edgar B. Nichols is this set. 

In the evolutionary timeline of these pencils, I place these right after the flattops from yesterday's article.  Here's one of these pencils compared with a later Tri-point more commonly encountered . . .

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Monday, June 11, 2012

Straight from the Horse's (Inventor's) Mouth

In The Catalogue, you won't find any listing under Nichols Products Company.  There's only a short article indexed under "Tri-point" and a discussion of two of the patents Edgar B. Nichols was awarded for his multi-color pencils, because at the time the book was published, I was unaware of any other models the company made.

Since then, I've had a good time learning about some of the other contraptions Edgar Nichols invented, and I've posted a few articles here about them.  Yep, I figured I had Nichols pretty well covered.

Until a couple weeks ago, when I received an email from Bill Adams in Colorado, who said he had purchased a slew of Nichols pencils recently from an estate.   Not just any estate, mind you:  the estate of one Edgar B. Nichols. 

The first picture he sent me was of a group of fifteen Tri-points, and though the picture wasn't the clearest, I could see some trully fascinating things in there.  So he told me what he wanted for them and I paid it.  Here's the group after they arrived . . .

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Sunday, June 10, 2012

Jack's Back

A few weeks ago Jack Leone allowed me to borrow his Holland calendar pencils to photograph and compare to the one that I found in Chicago (see my post of May 9).  As it turns out, the pencil I found fits in pretty nicely with the ones Jack's turned up.  . .

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Saturday, June 9, 2012

Nishimura Turns On the Lights For Me

One of these days, I'm going to spring for the extra bucks for a perimeter table at a pen show, just so I can get some power and take some decent pictures!  In Chicago, David Nishimura stopped by my table to show me a couple pencils he'd picked up.  You'd have thought I was shooting Heidi Klum or something, with all the pictures I took  -- I just couldn't get it right.  Out of 20 or so, this was the best I was able to get. . .

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Friday, June 8, 2012

Now You Can Call Them By Name

If you have a box of unmarked or castoff pencils laying around somewhere, I'd bet you have at least one of these in there. 

These are found in a wide variety of colors and several varieties, all of which have a couple things in common:  that middle joint that is lower on the barrel, the streamlined top and the clip.   When I first started collecting pencils, I'd put together a pretty nice mini-collection of about a dozen colors of these, but as I became more focused on studying the different manufacturers I let most of mine go, since none of these are marked and I had no leads to go on.

Then in an online auction I found something that explained a lot more about these pencils.  When the item arrived, the box it came in was pretty unremarkable . . .

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Thursday, June 7, 2012

One out of Two Ain't Bad

The Espey appears at page 53 of The Catalogue.

Or, I should say, half of an Espey.  Although it was the only one I had seen up until that time, it was in pretty rough shape, with the top missing, the barrel cracked, and not working.  Since I'd never seen another one and didn't want to risk further damage, I chose to leave it alone until I found another one.

The moment finally came a couple of weeks ago, when this one surfaced on ebay . . .

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Wednesday, June 6, 2012

The Tripp-Barr Mistique

I don't understand a lot of things about the Tripp-Barr pencils.  I've got a couple examples, which are pictured on page 158 of The Catalogue.

The clear section in the middle reveals spare leads, but I don't know how to get at them.  I have no idea where the patents are for these, and every time I do a google search to find out more about them, the only result I find is my own Mechanical Pencil Museum, in which I present them and say I don't know much about them.

Even more frustrating is that every time one comes along in an online auction, I bid heavier than I know I should (I've listed them at $10 to $15 in The Catalogue, but I've been bidding more than double that) hoping to find one with an imprint or something more to go on, and I keep getting outbid!  This isn't a fluke -- three times I've lost out on these now!

Times like these I'm glad that I don't mind rolling the dice every once in a while on what appears to be a box of junk in an online auction.  One recent lot arrived, and here's one of the things that was in there . . .

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Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Leadhead's Tread: 2012 Raleigh Pen Show

I asked Terry Mawhorter if the weather is always this nice in Raleigh or if they just turned it on because there's a pen show in town.  He says it's always that nice, and I suppose that's the more likely explanation.

Terry runs two shows, the Ohio Show in November and this one.  He's been asking me about coming to Raleigh for a couple of years now, but this is the first time my schedule worked out such that I was able to go.  This year was also the first that Terry had help running the show from Jim Rouse.  I asked Jim if he could stop doing the "chicken dance" for a minute so I could get his picture . . .

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Monday, June 4, 2012

Tweeten Redux

As far as Oscar Tweeten's bowling pencil goes, Skip Nemecek and I are neck-and-neck in the race for who's the most excited to learn more about it.  Of course Skip, as President of Tweeten Fibre Co. and a relative of the inventor, has a bit of a leg up on me in the research department.

Skip recently found a Tweeten 1942 catalog.  Since the company is primarily known for its billiard products, nearly the entire catalog is devoted to those product lines, but there were two pages that both Skip and I find fascinating . . .

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Sunday, June 3, 2012

Something Intelligent to Say

I've had these photographed for awhile, waiting for the day when I would have some thing more intelligent to say about them than "here they are".  Dur-O-Lite revived the "Keen Point" name for this series.  Shown here are two shorter "Scanner" pencils, one of which also has the designation "OCR", and the larger "Film King."

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Saturday, June 2, 2012

For As Long As I Can Remember

Sunbury, Ohio is a painfully cute little town very near Westerville, Ohio, where I grew up.  As a kid, back when Westerville was a sleepy, isolated village of 15,000, I used to ride my bicycle out the back roads and up to the sleepier, more isolated Sunbury -- there used to be a great little donut shop on the square for breakfast.   Most times you could make it half the way there without seeing a car on the road. 

I like to think I'm too young to sound this old, but I barely recognize much of the area anymore.  In a few short years, suburban sprawl has gobbled up my beloved Westerville.  Most of the roads around town have grown from two lanes to four (too dangerous for most cars, let alone a bicycle), and even the zip codes have grown from one to two -- in a town that had a post office no bigger than my living room when I was growing up.

But Sunbury, just a few miles up the road, has somehow managed to survive relatively unscathed.  Sure, there's been change and development, but most of it has happened outside of town, out where State Routes 3 and 37 intersect.  The town square still looks much the same as it did thirty years ago, and the houses within walking distance are mostly from the last half of the nineteenth century, with just a few built later than 1920 or so.  The only change has been some of the old houses have been impeccably renovated, doubtless to suit the tastes of Columbus refugees who slipped into town quietly, seeking a simpler life.

Three times a year, for as long as I can remember -- Memorial Day, the Fourth of July, and Labor Day -- Sunbury has held an antiques show/flea market on the town square.  Rain or shine, hot or cold, the spacious lawn that surrounds the old town hall (still the tallest building in town, if you don't count the lumber mill south of the square) becomes a city of canopies, tables and showcases.  Some of it looks like the contents of someone's garage.  Lately, there's been a disturbing increase in vendors of Asian knock-off purses, clothing and sunglasses.   But there's also some pretty nice stuff, plenty to provide a day's entertainment if nothing else.

So three times a year, for as long as I can remember, I've made a pilgrimage to Sunbury.   Janet and I met almost eight years ago, and she'd never been there before we met, but from our first Memorial Day together on, she's been right there with me.  She even says, if we ever decided to move closer to Columbus for work, that Sunbury is where she'd like to live.  That says a lot, coming from someone who has lived her entire life in Newark!

Last weekend was our Memorial Day visit to Sunbury, and it was a test of endurance.  With near-record temperatures and bright sun for most of the day, getting through the show required both a snow cone and a large lemon shake-up! 

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Friday, June 1, 2012

Parker Writefine: The Tipectomy Was Canceled

Since a couple of my Writefines are missing the top knurled section, I put "donor Writefine" on my short list of parts to hunt for in Chicago so I could do a "tipectomy" or two.

I was wandering around the room a bit on Sunday when I passed by a table on which the dealer had a quart bag full o' stuff.  "Ten bucks," he said.  I don't know whether he was that sick of looking at this stuff or whether he was returning a favor for a deal I'd given him earlier in the day, but it didn't matter to me:  I'm like a crack whore when someone dangles a dime bag in front of me like that.  I didn't even know what was inside the bag - I bought it. 

(Pause:  no, I don't do drugs and I never have.  That was an analogy.)

Of course, I'm not the only one at the show that's like that.  After I'd taken out of it all the things I wanted, I sold what was left of the bag - for ten bucks.  To another crack whore like me.

(Pause:  that's another analogy.  Don't take me so seriously!)

Anyway, one of the items that I found appeared to check "donor Writefine" off of my list . .

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