Eversharp's Worst and Weirdest Idea

No, it wasn’t the ballpoint – that was a good idea poorly executed. It wasn’t the Eversharp 10,000 made during the time Parker was running the show, either – they might have been ugly as sin, but at least they worked..

My vote for the strangest thing Eversharp tried to do – a perfect storm of bad materials, bad engineering and bad marketing, is this:

At first glance, its easy to dismiss this as a later Skyline, until you notice the two most obvious differences: it’s a little bit shorter, and instead of a round barrel, these have a flat, ribbed front surface under the clip. .

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