The Leadhead's Pencil Blog

Eversharp: Cornerstone of an Industry covers the Eversharp Bantam line of pencils on pages 294 to 296; it shows most of them, but it didn’t...

After David Nishimura and I finished negotiating the purchase of a Victorian collection from Rob Bader in DC, Rob mentioned that he had a fe...

My “bank” of articles heading into the Ohio Show this weekend is pretty thin. I write these articles in advance and schedule them to publish...

As detailed on October 28, it was Ephraim S. Johnson and not Alonzo Cross who was awarded the design patent for “racing stripes” on writing ...

As mentioned yesterday, Ephraim Johnson is best known for his “Pearl Patent” of December 5, 1871, which protected the manner in which he aff...

Many years ago, I wrote a series of articles exploring A.T. Cross after I photographed the late Jim Rouse’s collection at the 2012 Baltimore...