Charles Keeran the founder of Eversharp.

[antoniosz]

David Nashimura wrote a nice article about the early history of Eversharp here.

That article really made an impression on me. In one footnote there was a reference to this webpage, which I had not paid attention to early on. Today I saw another reference to that webpage. It was prepared by Robert L. Bolin of U of Nebraska and is exceptional in terms of information. What stands out is a 1928 letter of C. Keeran the founder of Eversharp. According to Robert Bolin:

 

"In 1928, Mr. Keeran wrote to a board member of the Wahl Company seeking redress for the injustices done him. He describes how he came to be making Eversharp pencils, what he did for the Wahl Company while he was associated with them, and the injustices done him.

 

[*] 1928 Letter Page 1

 

[*] 1928 Letter Page 2

[*] 1928 Letter Page 3

[*] 1928 Letter Page 4

[*] 1928 Letter Page 5

[*] 1928 Letter Page 6

 

 

"

 

 

I urge you to read this letter - it is very interesting as it exposes the other side of the FP history that we often forget, i.e., money, greed, lies, personal passions etc.

Edited April 30, 2006 by antoniosz

[RussA]

Thanks, but I am getting a 404 page not found error. Could the problem be with my computer?

[antoniosz]

Thanks, but I am getting a 404 page not found error. Could the problem be with my computer?

Russ, sorry, it was my fault. It should work now.

 

AZ

[RussA]

Thanks AZ. Yes, the money and the greed side of the early fountain pen business is almost as interesting a study as the pens themselves. Very interesting find.

[RussA]

Keeran states in his letter that Wahl had nothing to do with development of the Eversharp pencil, but I guess Wahl didn't see it that way according to this 1921 WSJ article.

 

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a339/RussellAnderson/clip_image004.jpg

Edited May 11, 2006 by RussA

[antoniosz]

At least David Nashimura (who I assume has been influenced by Bolin's research) states that: "... his role as inventor of the Eversharp and midwife to Wahl’s rebirth as a writing equipment company was soon forgotten, in no small part thanks to Wahl’s deliberate obfuscation of its own early history".

 

The interesting thing is that the clash between Keeran and Wahl continued as this 1944 letter (also from Bolin's web page) shows. Apparently there was a Keeran vs the Wahl Company case that was settled by assigning (?) to Keeran a Wahl patent (US1693578) ...

 

Edt: Link to letter corrected.

Edited May 1, 2006 by antoniosz

[RussA]

Looking at the Appelate case, it appears that later Keeran sued Wahl for fraud, conspiracry.. and the like. Wahl hinged their defense on a Receipt & Release that Keeran signed regarding the $2,500, and the trial court ruled in their favor on several pleadings based on this affidavit and other factors. The Appelate court reversed the trial court's decision and remanded back for further proceedings.

 

"'Chicago, February 3rd, 1927.

"'Received from The Wahl Company Twenty-five hundred dollars ($ 2500.00) in full of all claims and demands of every kind, nature and description which I now have (or may hereafter have), arising out of anything that has heretofore transpired against the said The Wahl Company or any of its agents, officers, directors and employees.

 

"'C. R. Keeran.

"'Witness:

"'C. J. Frechette.'

 

"Further affiant sayeth not."

 

Keeren claimed that the affidavit pertained to his Canadian patents only, and was not intended to release Wahl from other claims he had at the time.

[antoniosz]

FULL TEXT (translation needed )

 

Charles R. Keeran, Appellant, v. The Wahl Company, Formerly The Wahl Adding Machine Company, et al., Appellees.

 

Gen. No. 42,520

 

APPELLATE COURT OF ILLINOIS, FIRST DISTRICT

 

320 Ill. App. 457; 51 N.E.2d 598; 1943 Ill. App. LEXIS 647

 

November 4, 1943, Opinion filed

 

SUBSEQUENT HISTORY: [***1] Rehearing denied November 23, 1943.

 

PRIOR HISTORY: Appeal by plaintiff from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Michael L. McKinley, Judge, presiding.

 

DISPOSITION: Judgment reversed and cause remanded.

 

COUNSEL: Moss, Ellman & Inlander, of Chicago, for appellant; Walter E. Moss, of Chicago, of counsel.

 

Winston, Strawn & Shaw, of Chicago, for appellees; George B. Christensen and Edward J. Wendrow, both of Chicago, of counsel.

 

JUDGES: Mr. Justice Scanlan delivered the opinion of the court. Friend, P. J., and Sullivan, J., concur.

 

OPINIONBY: SCANLAN

 

OPINION: [*458] [**599] MR. JUSTICE SCANLAN delivered the opinion of the court.

 

An action by plaintiff, the inventor of the Eversharp Pencil, against The Wahl Company, the manufacturer of said pencil, and others, for damages that plaintiff claims resulted from a conspiracy of defendants to injure and damnify him; to despoil him of his rights and interests in said pencil, his patents thereon and all patents relating thereto, and all his rights and interests in the Eversharp Company; "to render nil and vacuous his future business ventures"; "to render impotent his inventive gifts," and to ruin and destroy him through a series of alleged overt acts committed in pursuance of [***2] the conspiracy. Plaintiff demanded a jury trial. Defendants filed the following motions to the amended complaint: (a) A motion to dismiss under Sec. 48 of the Civil Practice Act on the grounds of (1) limitations, (2) prior judgment, and [**600] (3) release; ( a motion to strike under Sec. 45; © a motion to make the amended complaint more definite and certain. By leave of court the affidavit that had been filed by defendants in support of a motion to dismiss the original complaint and the counter-affidavit of plaintiff were permitted to stand as to motion (a). Defendants also filed a motion to strike as insufficient plaintiff's counter-affidavit. The trial [*459] court entered the following order: "This cause coming on to be heard on defendants' motion to dismiss and supporting affidavit (filed January 4, 1941) and defendants' motion to strike plaintiff's affidavit in defense of defendants' motion to dismiss, and the Court duly having considered briefs of respective counsel, and having heard arguments, and being duly advised in the premises, It Is Ordered that the said motions, and each of them, be granted; that this action be dismissed; and that defendants have judgment of and from [***3] the plaintiff for their costs." Plaintiff appeals from that order.

 

It will be noted that the trial court did not pass upon defendants' motions ( and ©, and, therefore, we are not called upon to determine the sufficiency of the amended complaint. It alleges that plaintiff was the inventor of the Eversharp Pencil and had secured basic patents thereon; that said pencil proved of exceeding mechanical utility and of great commercial worth; that plaintiff incorporated the Eversharp Pencil Company; that said pencil is of intricate construction and plaintiff contracted with The Wahl Company to manufacture it for a stipulated sum per pencil; that said Company manufactured the pencil; that the sales were large and constantly increased in volume; that defendants and others maliciously and wrongfully intending and contriving to injure and damnify plaintiff and the other shareholders of the Eversharp Company, to despoil them of all their rights and interests in said pencil and in their patents thereon and of all their rights and interests in the Eversharp Company, to render nil and vacuous plaintiff's future business ventures, to render impotent his inventive gifts, and to ruin and destroy [***4] him, confederated to that end, and in pursuance and consummation of the conspiracy, they, commencing about March 1, 1916, and continuing until the time of the filing of the original complaint, committed overt acts in furtherance of the conspiracy, [*460] by which the ruin of plaintiff was accomplished. The complaint sets up many overt acts and alleges that they were committed by defendants and other conspirators in furtherance of the conspiracy, but upon this appeal it is not necessary for us to recite them.

 

Plaintiff, in support of his contention that the court erred in entering the judgment order, has argued a number of points that are not essential in the determination of this appeal. We are in accord with defendants' statement that the question as to whether the amended complaint states a good cause of action is not before us upon this appeal for the reason that the trial court entered the judgment order solely upon defendants' motion (a), which was a motion to dismiss under Sec. 48 of the Practice Act, on the following grounds: (1) limitations, (2) prior judgment, and (3) release. In this court defendants concede that ground (2) would not warrant the entry of the judgment [***5] order and that it may be disregarded; they contend that the sole question for us to determine is whether grounds (1) and (3) justify the judgment order. We are in accord with this contention.

 

As to ground (1): Defendants' motion to dismiss, on the ground of limitations, contains only the following: "It appears from the face of the amended complaint that the asserted cause or causes of action did not accrue within the time limited by law for the commencement of an action or suit thereon." Plaintiff contends: "The statute of limitations cannot be raised by motion to strike or dismiss unless it affirmatively appears from the pleadings attacked that the cause of action is barred by a particular section of the limitations act interposed as a defense," and cites in support of the contention Burnett v. West Madison State Bank, 375 Ill. 402, 31 N.E.2d 776, where the court states (p. 408): "There is considerable argument in the briefs of the respective parties as to whether the five-year or the ten-year Statute of Limitations should apply. The [*461] Statute of Limitations is an affirmative defense and the burden of proving it rests upon the party pleading it. ( Schell v. Weaver, 225 Ill. 159, 80 N.E. 95.) [***6] It is a well-established principle of pleading that the Statute of Limitations can not be raised by a demurrer or motion to strike unless it affirmatively appears from the pleadings attacked, that the cause of action is barred by the particular section of the Limitations act being interposed as a defense." This contention of plaintiff would undoubtedly be a meritorious one had he made a motion to strike from defendants' motion to dismiss the language in relation to limitations, but the record does not show that he made any such motion and, therefore, he waived the defect in the pleading. (See Ill. Rev. Stat. 1943, ch. 110, par. 166, sec. 42 (3) [Jones Ill. Stats. Ann. 104.042, subd. (3)]. See, also, Aetna Ins. Co. v. Illinois Cent. R. Co., 283 Ill. App. 527, 553.) The parties agree that there can be no recovery in a civil action for a mere conspiracy and that to make the conspiracy actionable it must be followed by an overt act or acts in furtherance of the conspiracy. Plaintiff cites certain criminal cases that hold that in a criminal prosecution for conspiracy the Statute of Limitations does not begin to run from the time the conspiracy was entered into, but from the date of [***7] the commission of the last overt act in furtherance of the conspiracy (see People v. Blumenberg, 271 Ill. 180, 185, 110 N.E. 788; People v. Link, 365 Ill. 266, 280, 281, 6 N.E.2d 201, and cases cited therein), and contends that this rule applies to the instant case, and that as there are allegations in the amended complaint sufficient to show that overt acts were committed in pursuance of the conspiracy from about March 1, 1916, down to the time of the filing of the complaint, no part of plaintiff's cause of action is barred by limitations. Defendants contend that the rule in criminal cases does not apply to the instant proceeding; that in a criminal prosecution for conspiracy the gist of the conspiracy is the unlawful [*462] agreement and that the consummation of the conspiracy is not essential to the offense of conspiracy (citing People v. Buckminster, 207 Ill. App. 230; 282 Ill. 177), but that in a civil action based upon a charge of conspiracy it must appear not only that the conspiracy was formed but that an overt act or acts were done in furtherance of the conspiracy, and they argue that it is the damage done in pursuance of the conspiracy that gives a plaintiff a right of action in a civil [***8] proceeding and that the Statute of Limitations begins to run immediately upon the commission of an overt act as to such act. As this record is presented to us we are not called upon to determine the foregoing question. Plaintiff states: "An action for civil conspiracy is not specifically mentioned in Chapter 83 of the Illinois Revised Statutes entitled 'Limitations'. An action for civil conspiracy is undoubtedly covered by Section 15 (par. 16) of our Limitations Act, providing that 'all civil actions not otherwise provided for, shall be commenced within five years next after the cause of action accrued.'" Defendants state: "It is unnecessary to determine whether the one, two or five year statute applies to 'civil conspiracy,' because the averments concerning the five years immediately preceding the filing of complaint are of the same tenor and effect. Plaintiff appears to take the position that there is a five-year period of limitation. For the purposes of this appeal and argument which is on a motion to dismiss the entire case we will not contest plaintiff's assumption although that assumption is highly debatable." We find at the conclusion of defendants' argument that plaintiff's [***9] entire cause of action is barred by the Statute of Limitations, the following [**601] significant admission: "It follows from the foregoing [cases cited by defendants] that at most, plaintiff could recover for only such damages as he has sustained within the applicable limitations period," and defendants complain that plaintiff seeks to recover for [*463] alleged grievances dating back for a quarter of a century. But here we have a case where the trial court held that plaintiff's entire cause of action was barred by the Statute of Limitations. The allegations of paragraphs 19, 20, and 21 of the amended complaint set forth that overt acts in furtherance of the conspiracy were committed in each of the years 1923 to 1938, both inclusive, and that said acts were still being committed at the time of the filing of the complaint. While defendants at the outset of their brief insisted that the question as to whether the amended complaint states "a theoretically good cause of action" is not before this court upon this appeal, they finally seem to realize that the trial court erred in holding that the Statute of Limitations applied to the entire cause of action, and they seek to avoid the effect [***10] of the error by contending that "plaintiff has not well pleaded any acts done pursuant to the conspiracy within the period of any applicable statute and, therefore, his entire cause of action is barred"; that "plaintiff does not set out the words in haec verba; he does not say when, during the 15 years span he covers, the words were published, nor to, or by whom; nor does he even hint as to which and what were oral or which and what were written; he does not even hint at the identity of the 'sundry persons . . . rumormongers' who 'furtively disseminated insidious rumors'; as far as the corporate defendants are concerned, he does not allege who the agents were that uttered the supposed libels nor that they were acting within the scope of their authority." Had the trial court passed favorably upon defendants' motion to strike the complaint under Sec. 45 and also upon defendants' motion to make the amended complaint more definite and certain, plaintiff would then have had an opportunity to amend the amended complaint. Defendants state that they have not waived or abandoned these motions and that should the instant judgment [*464] order be reversed and the cause remanded they [***11] will have a right to ask the trial court to pass upon the said motions. In the state of the record defendants should not be heard to raise the instant contention. We hold that the trial court erred in holding that the Statute of Limitations applied to the entire cause of action.

 

As to ground (3): Was plaintiff's cause of action barred by the instrument signed by him on February 3, 1927? Attached to defendants' motion to dismiss under Sec. 48 of the Civil Practice Act is an affidavit of James H. Winston, which, so far as it applies to the instant question, is as follows:

 

"In further support of the motion to dismiss herein, affiant shows unto the Court that on February 23, 1927, the plaintiff herein, Charles R. Keeran, for the sum of $ 2500, gave a full and complete release in words and figures as follows:

 

"'Chicago, February 3rd, 1927.

"'Received from The Wahl Company Twenty-five hundred dollars ($ 2500.00) in full of all claims and demands of every kind, nature and description which I now have (or may hereafter have), arising out of anything that has heretofore transpired against the said The Wahl Company or any of its agents, officers, directors and employees.

 

"'C. R. Keeran.

"'Witness:

"'C. [***12] J. Frechette.'

 

"Further affiant sayeth not."

 

The counter-affidavit filed by plaintiff, so far as it pertains to the instrument of February 3, 1927, is as follows:

 

Plaintiff avers that $ 2,500 was the amount that The Wahl Company agreed to pay for his Canadian patents and in certain paragraphs of the affidavit plaintiff alleges facts tending to show that the $ 2,500 was received by him, and the so-called release or receipt was [*465] given, for the assignment of his Canadian patents and for no other purpose; that in said transaction plaintiff had implicit faith in, and relied upon the representations of C. J. Frechette, the vice-president of The Wahl Company; that Frechette knew of the perpetuous conspiracy but plaintiff did not; that the release or receipt under the circumstances stated in the affidavit was obtained through duress and fraud and that except for the Canadian patents there was no consideration for it, and he denies that the acceptance of the check and the signing of the receipt or release, released the perpetuous conspiracy that commenced long prior to February 3, 1927, and continued down to the filing of the complaint. Plaintiff demanded that the issues raised [***13] by the motion to dismiss and [**602] the affidavit of James H. Winston in support thereof be submitted to a jury. No other affidavits were filed upon said motion.

 

Defendants contend that the instrument signed by plaintiff on February 3, 1927, must be treated as a general release and that by its terms plaintiff released all claims of every kind, whether known to him or not; that even if plaintiff had no knowledge of the alleged conspiracy at the time of the execution of the release such fact would not prevent its being covered by a general release; that "he who gives a general release does so at his peril"; that the release cannot be contradicted by parol evidence even though the alleged conspiracy was not known to plaintiff at the time he signed the release; that the release is a bar to the entire claim of plaintiff.

 

Plaintiff contends that the so-called release is not under seal and therefore he has the right to show that it was made without consideration, or that it was part payment only, or that it was obtained by fraud, duress or circumvention, and cites in support of the contention Robinson v. Yetter, 238 Ill. 320, 324, 325, 87 N.E. 363; Woodbury v. U.S. Casualty Co., 284 Ill. 227, 234, [***14] 235, 120 N.E. 8. [*466] Plaintiff further contends that under the rules that govern the interpretation of releases the instrument cannot be held to be a release of defendants from the claim set up in the complaint; that the so-called release, giving it the most favorable construction for defendants, merely releases The Wahl Company or any of its agents, officers, directors and employees, from all claims and demands of every kind, nature and description "which I now have (or may hereafter have), arising out of anything that has heretofore transpired," and that it is idle to argue that plaintiff by signing the instrument thereby released the defendants in the instant case from the overt acts committed in pursuance of the conspiracy as alleged in the complaint; acts that are in their nature criminal and that were committed after the signing of the release.

 

". . . a release, like every other written instrument, must be so construed as to carry out the intention of the parties. This intention is to be sought in the language of the instrument itself when read in the light of the circumstances which surrounded the transaction. The court which interprets must place itself as nearly as possible [***15] in the position of the parties when they acted." ( Parmelee v. Lawrence, 44 Ill. 405, 410. See, also, Miller v. Lloyd, 181 Ill. App. 230, 245.) "Nor should the words employed in a release be extended beyond the consideration; otherwise we make a release for the parties which they never intended or contemplated; Rapp v. Rapp, 6 Pa. 45; McLarren v. Robertson, 20 Pa. 125; Noble v. Burke, 5 Phil. 526; Wharton's Cont., 1037; Lyman v. Clark, 9 Mass. 235." ( Codding, Admr., v. Wood, 112 Pa. 371, 378, 3 A. 455. Many other cases to the same effect might be cited.) The argument of defendants that the release covers all of the many overt acts set up in the complaint, acts that are alleged to have been committed by defendants after the date of the execution [*467] of the release and in pursuance of the conspiracy, that plaintiff alleges was unknown to him at the time of the signing of the release, does not seem sound to us. Giving full effect to the language of the release and considering the language in the light of the conspiracy alleged in the complaint, it is our judgment that it could not be possible that the parties intended to include in the release [***16] all future overt acts of defendants committed in pursuance of the conspiracy charged. While this is a civil proceeding, nevertheless, the acts charged are criminal in their nature, and might have been made the basis of an indictment for conspiracy. If the argument of defendants is sound, then, ten years after the signing of the release, they might loot the safe of plaintiff and the release would bar any civil action by plaintiff against them for damages growing out of the looting. Assuming, but not deciding, that the release is broad enough to include all overt acts committed in pursuance of the conspiracy up to the time of the execution of the release, the following express language of the release, "arising out of anything that has heretofore transpired," would seem to preclude an interpretation that the release covered overt acts, committed in futuro, in furtherance of the conspiracy. We hold that the trial court erred in holding that the instrument of February 3, 1927, barred plaintiff's entire cause of action.

 

There is much feeling shown in the briefs of the parties. Defendants contend that the claim of plaintiff is a preposterous one and that the prosecution of the case [***17] is intended to harass defendants and thereby force them to make another settlement to avoid expenses and weeks of trial. To this plaintiff replies: "The plaintiff was the inventor of the Eversharp and the Autopoint [**603] pencils, and perfected the Realite pencil. Through his genius a pioneer industry was founded that has enriched the defendants but has left the plaintiff poor indeed -- poor in this world's goods, [*468] poor in his good name and poor in his reputation. Plaintiff is the harassed one, not the defendants." It is a sufficient answer to both positions to state that the merits of the cause are not before us for determination, and it must be understood that nothing that we have heretofore said in this opinion was intended to express any opinion as to the merits of the case.

 

The judgment of the superior court of Cook county is reversed and the cause is remanded for further proceedings not inconsistent with this opinion.

 

Judgment reversed and cause remanded.

 

FRIEND, P. J., and SULLIVAN, J., concur.

Edited May 1, 2006 by antoniosz

[RussA]

My reading is that the appellate court was simply deciding if Wahl was entitled to some type of a summary judgment which was granted by the trial court and in favor of Wahl and not any underlying issues that Keeran claimed in the county case. The judgment would have thrown out Keeran’s case before it got started, so I’m assuming they all went back to Cook County for trial. I guess Wahl obtained the judgment based on a statute of limitations and the affidavit of Keeran and subsequently the judgment was reversed. Does anyone have the Cook County case which lays out Keeran’s claims? Was the assignment of the patent to Keeran, as mentioned as settlement with Wahl, everything that became of the case in the end?

 

Thanks,

[antoniosz]

I checked through Lexis for Supreme court decisions and I could not find anything that has Wahl Company involved. I also check all decisions that have the word "conspiracy" from 1939 to 1944 in Cook County and I can not find anything. If there was a settlement there would not be a decision, right?

[RussA]

If there was a settlement there would not be a decision, right?

 

 

Yes, I would assume that since they settled (according to the 1944 letter) there would not be any public recording of the settlement. Most settlements I believe are confidential prohibiting either party from making the full details public, but someone could have anyway and maybe a copy floats somewhere.

 

I'll bet that when Keeran vented and wrote that letter to the board he never thought that it would be used in later years to set the record straight as to who really deserves credit for the success of his pencil.

[Johnny Appleseed]

If there was a settlement there would not be a decision, right?

 

Actually, even if there was a decision by the trial court it would not be published in any of the legal record. Only appeals court decisions are published. If there was any extant record of the trial court case, it would be buried somewhere in the files of the Cook county courthouse.

 

Most settlements I believe are confidential prohibiting either party from making the full details public, but someone could have anyway and maybe a copy floats somewhere.

 

Best bet one finding a copy would be Keeren's family - he would have kept a copy, and it might have turned up in his estate. However, old lawsuits are not generally what families want to remember a deceased relative for, so they tend to get tossed. The other place would be the Wahl Company archives, but I think they too are long gone.

 

 

Ah... Sheaffer Vs. Barrett, Keeran Vs. The Wahl Company, L.E. Waterman vs. A.A. Waterman, Wirt vs. Brown - we could do our own series of pen-related legal thrillers.

 

John

Edited May 1, 2006 by Johnny Appleseed

[Vintagepens]

While I am mindful that there are two sides to any dispute, a close reading of Keeran's letters alongside the official Wahl accounts as published in Printer's Ink suggests that Keeran's account is essentially correct. The Wahl accounts omit, gloss over, and shift emphasis, but they do not contradict anything Keeran recounted -- and in many ways, large and small, they corroborate instead.

 

Then there is the evidence of early advertisements, business cards, instruction sheets, and the pencils themselves -- not to mention the patents. These all leave no doubt that Keeran invented the Eversharp, and that he put it into production independently well before he approached Wahl.

 

I'm not sure what the Eagle obituary posted above is supposed to prove. There is no mention of the Eversharp there at all: did the wrong image get posted by mistake?

[RussA]

I'm not sure what the Eagle obituary posted above is supposed to prove.  There is no mention of the Eversharp there at all: did the wrong image get posted by mistake?

I believe the above obit pertains to Eversharp only. It was not posted for the purpose of proving anything. The obit just shows some liberties that might have been taken with regard to the invention of the mechanical pencil.

[antoniosz]

RussA the image you posted changed. Few days ago it was saying something about J. Wahl but now it is a different one.

 

AZ

[RussA]

I'm not sure what the Eagle obituary posted above is supposed to prove.  There is no mention of the Eversharp there at all: did the wrong image get posted by mistake?

I believe the above obit pertains to Eversharp only. It was not posted for the purpose of proving anything. The obit just shows some liberties that might have been taken with regard to the invention of the mechanical pencil.

OK, When I opened this thread this morning the Wahl atricle was posted on my previous post above, so I could not understand where the Eagle reference was coming from. Now it shows an Eagle ariticle. I understand the confusion now. Somehow I have both images on one jpeg.

[RussA]

RussA the image you posted changed. Few days ago it was saying something about J. Wahl but now it is a different one.

 

AZ

I am in PhotoBucket now and there are only two images... both are the Reckendorfer image for Eagle. This morning I was reading the Wahl article in my post... at home and when I got here to the office. I have not made any changes or added any pictures since these were posted days ago. This is weird.

[Vintagepens]

Now that the correct bit of Wahl bio has been posted, we can see that its claims indeed do not contradict Keeran's. Yes, Wahl did make changes and improvements to the basic Eversharp. But none of these were at all significant, having more to do with appearance (clip design, engine turning patterns) than with the core mechanism (which remained essentially unchanged).

[antoniosz]

OK. Let me revive this old thread because a very interesting pen just sold on ebay.

Check item 220168458302

A red (hard rubber?) Keeran Indestructo Keeran Products Chicago.

Can anyone provide more information about the pen, the company, the timemark etc....