Another No-Name Heard From

Online auction descriptions are notoriously unreliable, especially when the object being described looks as bad as this:

Fortunately, it doesn’t take much to get these cleaned up – just some buffing compound, a rag, and a few minutes was all it took to get things looking much better:

The seller had indicated that this was a "Krest" pencil, a statement I found intriguing. Sure enough, pencil in hand and all cleaned up, there it is:

I haven’t found anything at all about this one. Nothing. No advertising, not so much as one decent clue. None, that is, except for these:

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