Need Help Identifying This Mechanical Pencil

[mlrosier]

Hello everyone. My Mom recently passed away, and in going through her things, I have found a whole bunch of vintage mechanical pencils. I have kept all of them to add to my tools for my artistic drawings. But one pencil has stood out for me. It has a nice weight and feel to it, and I plan on using it for my daily sketch pencil. However, I'm not sure what size of lead it uses, or if it's even available anymore. To further complicate things, the pencil has no name on it at all. Just a symbol. The symbol is two spheres, they are stacked vertically, one overlapping the other, with a line struck through the center of both of them.

 

I've attached pictures, but also posted to my Instagram.

 

https://instagram.com/p/BXx3WbUnxvP/

 

[aeba]

Not an idea of the manufacturer, or even country of origin.

 

Leads are likely to still be available. For example Worther and Yard-o-Led has the old 1,18mm leads. State side Jetpens has E+M 1,18mm and Retro 51 1,15mm leads. There's also 1,4mm leads, but in my limited understanding those are quite new thing.

 

Personally I would rather bet on the more usual 0,7mm or 0,9mm. Likely it would be simplest to take the pen with you and go to Staples or what ever stationery shop you have around, and just try. At worst you'll get some kind of ballpark what the diameter is.

[semanticgap]

In general, older pencils usually take larger lead than what we're used to most modern pencils using today. This article has a great tip for checking what lead size you might have:

http://www.legendaryleadcompany.com/what-size-do-i-need.html

 

Essentially, if a large paperclip fits, it's likely 1.1 mm lead. If a small paperclip fits in the tip of your pencil, there's a good chance it's 0.9 mm lead.

 

And while that mark on the clip does not look familiar at all, I wonder if it might be two Bs, back to back. Perhaps the brand is Brown & Bigelow? Don't get your hopes up, though; I tried to find an example of this symbol somewhere associated with them and didn't see anything that looked similar.

 

If you're still lost trying to find the brand, maybe something at this link will look similar:

http://www.legendaryleadcompany.com/mechanical-pencil-museum.html

[mlrosier]

Thank you. I will do the size test for finding lead. But still no luck on finding out who made it. I know that at the very least, it's 40 years old. I'm 40, and it has been in my Mom's things since before I was born. It looks new, and like I said, it has a nice weight and feel to it.

[ChadHahn]

It looks like a Bill Blass pencil. Here is an eBay auction just to show a pen and pencil set with the same logo. If this isn't ok feel free to delete it. I don't know who made their pencils.

 

Chad

 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/BILL-BLASS-4-PIECE-TWIST-ACTION-GOLD-TONE-HIGH-END-LUXURY-PEN-PENCIL-SET-/361966398725

[mlrosier]

It looks like a Bill Blass pencil. Here is an eBay auction just to show a pen and pencil set with the same logo. If this isn't ok feel free to delete it. I don't know who made their pencils.

 

Chad

 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/BILL-BLASS-4-PIECE-TWIST-ACTION-GOLD-TONE-HIGH-END-LUXURY-PEN-PENCIL-SET-/361966398725

 

That's it!! Thank you.