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Tuesday, July 23, 2013
Rex Redux
When this one showed up in an online auction, I got so much more than I bargained for:
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Monday, July 22, 2013
The Pencil With An Executive Touch
The "Executive" appears on page 79 of The Catalogue. Until recently, the one in the book was the only one I’d seen, so when this one showed up in an online auction, I thought it best to try to bring it home:
Both of my examples are marked only "The Executive" on the clip:
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Both of my examples are marked only "The Executive" on the clip:
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Friday, July 19, 2013
The Sheaffer Quixote
Shortly before the Chicago Pen Show, Dan Reppert emailed me to ask me if I had any idea what these came from:
Nope. I have absolutely no idea. I knew it was a pencil mechanism of some sort, but the plastic bushings on these are unlike anything I’ve seen before.
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Nope. I have absolutely no idea. I knew it was a pencil mechanism of some sort, but the plastic bushings on these are unlike anything I’ve seen before.
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Thursday, July 18, 2013
Looking Up a Few More Websters
"Webster" was a store brand for Sears Roebuck & Co., headquartered in Chicago. That’s one of those things I thought I’d known for a long time, so I was dismayed when I looked up the brand in The Catalogue and found at page 170 where I had characterized Webster as "a Chicago manufacturer." Mea culpa.
I did get everything else right, though, when it came to the Webster. I reported that it was in Chicago – check. I reported that Webster did not produce any pencils of its own design – correct. And I correctly identified the six examples pictured as being three examples made under the Rex Manufacturing Company patents (although I should have elaborated that they were made by National Pen Products, also of Chicago) and three modified Parker Parkettes:
But I also knew a few things about Webster that I thought were outside the scope of my pencil book at the time I wrote it. For example, I knew there were also some Webster pens out there with military clips, which looked a lot like Sheaffer military clip Balances. I’ve had a few of the pens -- they always seemed to turn up in black. and seemed to be pretty well made with 14k nibs and a nice feel to them. The only reason I didn’t mention that fact was that I hadn’t seen a matching pencil for it.
You know where this one’s going . . .
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I did get everything else right, though, when it came to the Webster. I reported that it was in Chicago – check. I reported that Webster did not produce any pencils of its own design – correct. And I correctly identified the six examples pictured as being three examples made under the Rex Manufacturing Company patents (although I should have elaborated that they were made by National Pen Products, also of Chicago) and three modified Parker Parkettes:
But I also knew a few things about Webster that I thought were outside the scope of my pencil book at the time I wrote it. For example, I knew there were also some Webster pens out there with military clips, which looked a lot like Sheaffer military clip Balances. I’ve had a few of the pens -- they always seemed to turn up in black. and seemed to be pretty well made with 14k nibs and a nice feel to them. The only reason I didn’t mention that fact was that I hadn’t seen a matching pencil for it.
You know where this one’s going . . .
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Wednesday, July 17, 2013
Dan Chimes In
After yesterday’s post, Dan Linn sent me some pictures of a Number 830 Eagle Torpedo from his collection:
His has the earlier knurled top:
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His has the earlier knurled top:
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Tuesday, July 16, 2013
Collecting By The Numbers
It bugs me when there are unsightly gaps, whether they be in my memory of a series, or the series itself. Today’s story involves both.
Since I was writing about early Eagle pencils yesterday, I had cause to go back and have another look at this picture, from “Eagle’s Banner Year of 1909" back on February 16, 2012 (http://leadheadpencils.blogspot.com/2012/02/eagle-week-part-4-eagles-banner-year-of.html):
With the No. 829 “Little Torpedo,” the No. 830 “Torpedo” and the No. 833 “Borneo,” I wondered out loud, where are numbers 831 and 832?
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Since I was writing about early Eagle pencils yesterday, I had cause to go back and have another look at this picture, from “Eagle’s Banner Year of 1909" back on February 16, 2012 (http://leadheadpencils.blogspot.com/2012/02/eagle-week-part-4-eagles-banner-year-of.html):
With the No. 829 “Little Torpedo,” the No. 830 “Torpedo” and the No. 833 “Borneo,” I wondered out loud, where are numbers 831 and 832?
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Monday, July 15, 2013
A Few More Neat Eagles
I’ve found some really neat early pencils from the Eagle Pencil Company this year. But I haven’t found them all. Not by a longshot.
For example, Dan Linn had to send me a picture to let me know that the “Leopard,” which I featured here back on February 6 in yellow and purple (see “Sharpening My Understanding of the Spear” at http://leadheadpencils.blogspot.com/2013/02/sharpening-my-understanding-of-spear.html), also came in red:
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For example, Dan Linn had to send me a picture to let me know that the “Leopard,” which I featured here back on February 6 in yellow and purple (see “Sharpening My Understanding of the Spear” at http://leadheadpencils.blogspot.com/2013/02/sharpening-my-understanding-of-spear.html), also came in red:
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