What’s new
a reverse chronological history of Leadholder
Dennis B. Smith, curator
2006 March 22 — 2006 April 22
Added a
Staedtler Mars-Lumograph 1002 to the Drafting Leadholder Gallery.
Added three examples of a new name to Leadholder.com,
Fedra to the Drafting Leadholder Gallery.
Added a
Dietzgen 3159 to the Drafting Leadholder Gallery.
Added a 1970s vintage
Alvin “Constant” 12 pack to the Drawing Lead Gallery.
Added
US patent 1,848,224 for the first truly precision pushbutton spring clutch pencil to the Patent Gallery.
Here is a small but long overdue update to the Wood Cased Drafting Pencil Gallery:
Added an
E. Wolff & Son “Royal Sovereign”.
Added two
Dixon's American Graphite Polygrades.
Added an
card-mounted Eberhard Faber Microtomic.
Added a
1908 ad for A.W. Faber “Castell” drawing pencils to the Ad Gallery.
Added a
1916 ad for Venus drawing pencils to the Ad Gallery.
Added a
1953 ad for Eberhard Faber “Microtomic” drawing pencils to the Ad Gallery.
It’s the Eagle Pencil Company Patent Festival™!!!
Added
US patent 215521 from 1879 for the first pushbutton spring clutch pencil to the Patent Gallery.
Added
US design patent 119006 from 1939 for the Eagle Turquoise 3375 to the Patent Gallery.
It’s quasi-official. The
Eagle Turquoise 3375 is the most patented leadholder in history.
Added
US design patent 174249 from 1953 for the Eagle Turquoise Prestomatic 3377 to the Patent Gallery.
Added
US design patent 174250 from 1954 for the Eagle Turquoise 3375 to the Patent Gallery.
I’ve revamped all of the patent pages with a new, more informative heading. That will make the patents more searchable once they are indexed by Google.
I have also realigned all patent references to focus on the application date rather than the final patent issue date. It made no sense to concentrate on the day some
incompetent bureaucrat
finally got off his ass and issued the patent instead of the day the inventor submitted it which will be much closer to the date of invention. This was an interesting exercise as it changed the order of the patents.
Added a
Shop link in the header to my new eBay identity
drafting-pencil. If you go to eBay to buy pencils, be sure to only buy from me. Don’t buy pencils offered by others because they may cause temporary blindness and vomiting. Oh, and I may be bidding on those myself and I don’t want the price to escalate. Okay?
Added two Staedtler Mars calendars, one rather banal example from the
1950s and one from swingin’
1978 featuring hot hot Helga performing phallacio on a model 77113 to the Ad Gallery. (Yes, I’m still trying to work traffic-grabbing keywords into the pages of Leadholder.com.)
Added a beautiful double ended
Conté No.1 & No. 2 to the Non-Drafting Leadholder Gallery courtesy Allan Macdonald.
Added two boxes to the
Cumberland “King’s Own” page in the Drafting Leadholder Gallery.
Added a box and some additional information to the
Alvin 5020 series page in the Drafting Leadholder Gallery.
Added an
Alvin “Scott” kit to the Drafting Leadholder Gallery.
Added an
Alvin Tech A1 to the Drafting Leadholder Gallery.
Added two packs of blue
Gilbert & Blanzy-Poure colored lead to the Lead Gallery courtesy Allan Macdonald.
