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Try putting 1.1mm lead in and see if it fits. Conversely, try putting .9mm lead in and see if it falls out.

 

If you don't have the pencil in hand, everything before the Skyline used 1.1mm lead (except checking pencils, of course, which are obviously huge by comparison). After that, most are 1.1mm up through the time Parker took over Eversharp's writing instruments division in 1957. I believe all Parker-Eversharps are .9mm.

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Within the Skyline to Parker date range Jon mentioned, those that take 0.9 mm lead will often be marked "thin lead" somewhere on them, sometimes engraved on the metal tip, sometimes on the magazine tube, sometimes not at all. I was told that the tip has one groove around it for "standard" lead (1.1/1.2 mm) and two grooves for "thin" lead, but I have found this to not always be true.

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