Speaking of Trupoint . . .

In yesterday’s post, I concluded that a pencil marked "Trupoint" was made by Eclipse, because the clip and overall construction were identical to that of another Eclipse subbrand, the Marxton:

That’s worth circling back around to for a minute. "Trupoint" was a brand name used by Sears, Roebuck & Co. for pens and pencils, and what appear to be the earliest examples I’ve found – earlier than the ones I pictured here yesterday – also appear to have been made by Eclipse . . .

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Horses of Different but Familiar Colors

The title of the online auction was "Lot of 62 vintage mechanical pencils most have advertising" and there were three pictures: one showing the whole mess of 62, then one showing the top half of the heap and a third showing the bottom half of the heap. Sixty of them looked like the usual forties and fifties advertising pencils.

But then there were those last two . . .

When the package arrived, I hardly noticed there were sixty other pencils in those bags as I pawed through them like they were just more of the packaging. Eventually, I found the two that looked special, and yep, they sure were! Here’s the first one . . .

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Keeping It Real

Here was a nice find from the DC show. I don’t remember where it came from, but I think it came out of Frank Hoban’s hoard (through Michael Little).

This is a "Realpoint," which was an Autopoint brand (the name is a combination of Realite and Autopoint, the two companies which merged to form the Autopoint Products Company). According to Jim Stauffer, Realpoint was the brand Autopoint used to test market new ideas, which explains why this one lacks the familiar removable nose cone seen on Realites and Autopoints.  The mechanism is a conventional nose drive.

Also, rather than being made of bakelite, another Autopoint standby, Realpoints are made in very attractive colors. Here it is, posed with the three examples pictured on page 23 of The Catalogue . . .

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