Looking at the company's history in a simplistic way, Wahl's next big move was the "Equipoised" line of pens and pencils, made more streamlined to reflect the dramatic impact the introduction of the Sheaffer Balance in 1929 had on the design of writing instruments industry-wide. The Equipoised pencils featured an entirely new mechanism -- in fact, it was the only original pencil design Wahl ever came up with (remember that Eversharp's repeating pencil design was "lifted" from the Gilfred Corporation).
At page 61 of The Catalogue, I illustrate three pencils in frame 7e that match the Tempoint pens of the late 1920s, but which instead use the mechanism that would later be used on the Equipoised line and also on the Doric series . . .
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