So Long To Some Old Friends

Note:  this is the last installment in a series of five articles.  The first part was posted here:  http://leadheadpencils.blogspot.com/2014/10/artfully-to-point.html.

Until recently, I’d never heard of any of the people involved in the Dollar Point Pencil Corporation story. However, there’s been enough written about them that now that I’ve researched these articles I almost feel like I know them, including many details of their lives outside of Dollar Point.

Wade W. Moore, the inventor of the mechanism inside the Artpoint, never patented any other writing instruments or any other inventions, either. When I first started researching this article, I thought that was odd – most inventors with more than one patent don’t just quit. But after I read this historical account of Moore’s life in the 1926 History of Contra Costa County with Biographical Sketches, it made sense:

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.