Look What's Turning Up - The Clips!

Pencil hounds like me can spot pencils like these from a mile away and know what they are.

Within three guesses, anyway.  Those clips aren’t bent, and that distinctive turned-up ball clip design narrows down the names you’ll likely find on these pencils to three high quality producers.

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Try Naming This One!

When this second-generation (1924-1930) metal Wahl Eversharp popped up in an online auction, I knew it was special:

If your eyes are sharp enough to see those offset squares and wonder what that pattern might be, your eyes will pop out when you see this one up close:

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I've Got Three Guesses . . . OK, Maybe More

It’s been a long time since I’ve gotten to circle back around to the Everfeed. When I last talked about the brand, it was in the article titled "My Find of the Year," originally posted December 31, 2011 (http://leadheadpencils.blogspot.com/2011/12/my-find-of-year.html). Remember these?

That’s because I haven’t had anything else to talk about since that article was written. But then just a couple weeks ago, I found something – it’s the green pencil shown here with an Everfeed:

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Does 26 Round Up To 94?

Recently I posted an article here about some interesting Waterman checking pencils that George Rimakis and Joe Nemecek shared with me at the Raliegh pen show:

I’d commented on the fact that Joe’s later example sports a later teardrop-shaped Waterman 94 clip, but I stopped short of suggesting that these pencils were part of the Waterman 94 line. Good thing, too, because I would have been 68 off.

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One For the Fourth Edition

Here’s another one John Coleman is sharing with us:

Before you Autopoint guys get any ideas, no – the nose is not removable. This great flattop has "Guild" written in Old English script, both on the clip and just above it on the plastic:

And what’s more, John even had a lead container with the same script:

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Back To The Drawing Board

I missed something.

On Monday, I showed off John Coleman’s Ever Sharp mechanism, bearing a "Keeran & Co. Bloomington Ill." imprint, and proudly announced that part of one of the original Ever Sharps, introduced in 1913, had been found.

Nope.

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I Wish I Could Remember What I Did With This One

I was really glad when John Coleman sent me some pictures of this one:

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.