The Monster Footnote

As I was researching yesterday’s article concerning the Nu-Type Manufacturing Company  (for those who hotlinked here, yesterday’s article is at http://leadheadpencils.blogspot.com/2013/09/a-nu-take-on-nu-type.html), I’d stumbled across my own footprints when I found a reference in an earlier article I’d written to the fact that the Nu-Type Manufacturing Company registered a trademark for “Nu-Point”:

This was one of those things I had forgotten that I knew, and it was also a pretty weird coincidence.  Earlier this month I posted an article in which I had finally established that by 1926, “Nupoint Propelling Pencils” were in fact produced by Samuel Kanner (see “It Would Have Been So Much Easier Had I Known This” on September 3, 2013 – http://leadheadpencils.blogspot.com/2013/09/it-would-have-been-so-much-easier-had-i.html):

To learn more, this full article is included in The Leadhead's Pencil Blog Volume 2, available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble and everywhere else you buy books, or you can order a copy signed by yours truly through the Legendary Lead Company HERE.

A Nu Take On The Nu-Type

If you look up the Nu-Type in The Catalogue, the book will direct you to the entry under “Ditto” where, on page 41, you’ll see a grouping of these oddballs, posed with a typewriter ribbon tin bearing the same Ditto logo:

I didn’t know quite what to make of these at the time the book went to press.  All of the Ditto-marked examples I had found also had “Nu-Type” imprinted neatly around the lower ring, in addition to the word “Ditto” imprinted neatly around the cap:

To learn more, this full article is included in The Leadhead's Pencil Blog Volume 2, available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble and everywhere else you buy books, or you can order a copy signed by yours truly through the Legendary Lead Company HERE.