Blue Jay pencils were produced by the Blackwell-Wielandy Book and Stationery Company of St. Louis, which offered several products under that trademark. Produced, mind you, not manufactured . . . I never thought that the company got a wild hair to set up the machinery and equipment to start making metal pencils out of the "blue," if you’ll forgive the pun.
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Wallace Pencil Company had manufacturing in St. Louis for many years, in a building just west of "downtown". Perhaps Wallace was the maker of the B-W wood pencils.
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Good points, and thanks for the additional information! Question: did Wallace do anything mechanical? I thought they were all wood pencils.
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