It's All Right . . . Mostly

I won’t say which of my pencil brethren was speaking ill of the Salz recently.  To each their own, and I’ll be the first one to admit that Salz made some really terrible stuff.  Then again, almost all of them did at one point or another (I’ve got more than a few Eversharps that only an Eversharp fanatic could love).

But Salz claims an important little corner in the pencil world, mostly from their spinoff company, “Pencil Products Corporation,” which turned out some nifty metal pencils which were offered as Diamond Point’s first pencils (marketed as the Autosharp – see “Auto-Confusing, More Like” on January 30, 2012 – http://leadheadpencils.blogspot.com/2012/01/auto-confusing-more-like.html — and “Whew!” on March 2, 2013 at http://leadheadpencils.blogspot.com/2013/03/whew.html).  Others were marketed directly by Salz under the tradename “Sta-Sharp.”  Here’s a few examples that are worthy of note, taken from page 132 of The Catalogue:

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