Wednesday, July 31, 2013

These Shur Were The Best They Made

We pencil guys – particularly we pencil guys who have to take everything apart to see how these things work – just love the Shur-Rite.  Most of the time they are pretty ordinary looking metal pencils, until you pull them apart to see just how ingenious they are:


Early examples are marked “Pat. Applied For,” which is a reference to Julius Swanberg’s original patent application of November 10, 1919, which was issued on June 14, 1921 as number 1,381,517 and assigned to “Fabart Instrument Company, a Corporation of Illinois."

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4 comments:

  1. RaychelleAugust 31, 2014 at 7:56 PM

    Hi! Thanks for this post. Do you know what kind/size lead can be used with the Shur-Rite pencils?
    Thanks!
    -Raychelle

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  2. Jon VeleySeptember 11, 2014 at 8:04 AM

    Hello Raychelle,

    These would take a 1.1 mm (.046 inch) lead. Currently offered by Autopoint and Retro 51.

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  3. UnknownAugust 8, 2015 at 11:06 AM

    How do you get it open?

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  4. UnknownAugust 27, 2019 at 12:04 AM

    How does one open the chamber to load the lead, and how does one make the lead advance?

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