Speaking of Boxes . . .

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Yesterday’s Sheaffer working togs pencil in black wasn’t much, were it not for the beautiful box in which it was housed.   Here’s a box that’s even nicer:

This trapezoidal jewel has one of the aluminum-barrel Eversharp repeaters from 1937 or so strapped to the inside of the lid:

And you can see some paperwork peeking out in there.  It doesn’t offer much to today’s discussion, but it is neat:

The real information to be found here, though, is inside the box itself:

What a litany!  OK, we might as well go through them one by one.  Patent number 1,700,255 is for a repeating pencil mechanism; it was applied for by Edward D. Feldman on October 23, 1922, but it wasn’t issued until January 29, 1929.  It was assigned to the Pencil Mechanism Corporation of New York:

Patent number 1,735,224 appears to have been added just to “pad” the patent pedigree here (note that the box specifically says it’s for the Eversharp Repeating Pencil). . . this patent is for John Wahl’s method of assembling fountain pens:

Patent 1,906,851 was issued to veteran Wahl (and later Riedell) inventor Hugo S. Hasselquist, who applied for something that kind of looks like an Eversharp repeater on February 23, 1922 . . . but it wasn’t issued for eleven years, finally issued on May 2, 1933:

As for Patent 1,916,199 . . . well hell, that’s just Robert Back’s patent for Everharp’s square lead:

Patent 1,967,484 is for a “magazine pencil,” but one of the screw drive sort, not the repeating kind.  It was applied for by Albert H. Stevenson on October 15, 1932 and was issued on July 24, 1934 - it was assigned to the Wahl Company:

You won’t find patent number 2,014,150 in my book... it’s for Albert H. Stenerson’s for an “Apparatus for molding objects of pyralin.”  Did I mention this is an aluminum-barreled pencil?

Design patent number 103,402 is close . .  It’s for Alfonso Iannelli’s design patent for the Coronet (actually Eversharp’s “Gold Filled Pencil”).  This one is a Coronet derivative, but obviously it doesn’t share much of anything in common with what’s patented:

And the same can be said for Iannelli’s alternate design for the Coronet, issued March 2, 1937 as Design Patent 103,403:

There is a reference to “Other Patents Pending” . . . perhaps they were referring to Iannelli’s design patent for the clip actually used on this pencil, which wasn’t issued until May 25, 1937 as Design Patent 104,686:

Or maybe not.  I think Eversharp just wanted to look like it had a lot of intellectual property in whatever they chose to stick in this box.

Talk About Reverse Trim

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It’s been a long time since I’ve picked up one of Eversharp’s “half Coronets.”  I don’t remember the origins of the nickname, but it’s a good one and it stuck.  Here’s the Coronets I pictured in 

The Catalogue, at page 69:

Out of all of these, only the example on the far left, with the greenish lower barrel, was actually referred to by Eversharp as a “Coronet.”  The all-metal pencils were – unimaginatively – called the all metal pencil matching Eversharp’s all-metal pens.  All these other versions were called simply repeating pencils.

What you see in The Catalogue has been about it.  I found one a while back which might have had a grey plastic lower barrel instead of blue (see http://leadheadpencils.blogspot.com/2015/12/what-color-is-this.html), but other than the occasional upgrade to add a price-stickered example, this has been about it (that’s a challenge to you out there, to show me an example that isn’t in the book).

Until the Ohio Show, at which I added the first variant to my collection since at least before I wrote the book:

Here it is shown alongside it’s closest relatives:

I’ve seen a few of these backwards half Coronets, with the plastic on the top end rather than the lower – a really cool variation especially when shown alongside a normal one.  But all the ones I’ve ever seen have that metal band at the top end, while this one has nothing.

The imprints are different, too:

Most of them have the “Genuine Eversharp Made in USA” imprint lengthwise on the barrel, but this one has what I believe to be the earlier “Genuine Eversharp Patented” imprint around the top (probably when the litigation between Gilfred and Eversharp started, which resulted in the invalidation of Gilfred’s patent on the repeating pencil mechanism, which Eversharp blatantly copied, in 1942 – see http://leadheadpencils.blogspot.com/2011/12/my-find-of-year.html).

And, of course, it didn’t hurt my feelings a bit that this one has a price sticker on it:

Model 3014SC.  If we ever find an Eversharp catalog listing all these, that bit of information might well come in handy.