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 . ..

NOTE:  This article is now included in the print version of The Leadhead's Pencil Blog, available anywhere you buy books, or also from The Legendary Lead Company.

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