Early metal Redipoint pencils, made by Brown & Bigelow of St. Paul, Minnesota, are like Sheaffer pencils – they are so good that they are easy to take for granted. I have a couple dozen of them laying about, most of which came to me because they were included with the pencil I was really trying to buy. While I haven’t gone through them to start categorizing them in detail – yet – they check in but they don’t check out because I appreciate how well they work.
At the Raleigh Show, however, this one caught my eye and I bought it on purpose:
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2 comments:
Jon,
ALl the metal Redipoints I have do store spare leads in the barrel; they are just loose and rest against the collar near the tip end of the threaded sleeve.
Mike Hungerford
Addendum:
Only one of mine bears the patent date, and it, too, lacks the spare lead sockets.
Mike
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