It Was All In the Names

Note:  this is the second part in a series of articles.  The first part is found here:  http://leadheadpencils.blogspot.com/2014/10/artfully-to-point.html.

Sometimes all it takes for the pieces of the puzzle to come together is a name. When it comes to the Artpoint and Dollarpoint pencils, yesterday’s article gave us several of them: Wade W. Moore, inventor of the Artpoint and Dollarpoint, Amadee J. Taussig, the pencil’s artistic designer, and Jesse E. Roach, the man to whom both the utility and design patents were assigned. These names, and a few others that turned up in connection with them, were all the ammunition needed to unravel a fairly complete history of the Dollarpoint and Artpoint pencils.

The Bookseller, Newsdealer and Stationer reported the organization of the Dollarpoint Pencil Corporation in its July 1, 1920 issue, identifying the incorporators as J. E. Roach, Wilbur E. Smith and Lester William Roth:

To learn more, this full article is included in The Leadhead's Pencil Blog Volume 3, available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble and everywhere else you buy books, or you can order a copy signed by yours truly through the Legendary Lead Company HERE.