This display indicates that the "Alexander the Great" pencils were from the Alexander Products Corporation of Bloomington, Illinois, and the design of these was so unique that I don’t have any reason to doubt that Alexander Products made these. However, the "Model 100" pencils shown in that previous article were the only Alexanders I’m aware of which were intended solely as writing instruments rather than as advertising novelties.
There’s three possibilities for what happened . . .
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There were 3 Pen companies all owned by members of the Lipic Family:
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Ritepoint Pen Company - Owned by Sylvester Lipic (started in 1933) Sylvester was the brother of Jospeh Lipic Jr, Leonard Lipic, Emil Lipic and Walter Lipic
Alexander Pen Company- purchased in the late 60's/early 70's by Joseph Lipic III and his brother Robert Lipic (son's of Joseph Lipic IIs)
All 3 companies were totally independent of the other and had no-intercompany relationship. They all happened to be owned by son's/grandson's of the Lipic family