Info On Wahl Eversharp Pencil With Star Inset

[crescentfiller]

Hello Folks,

 

Can anyone here offer any help on this Wahl Eversharp pencil? I've never seen one with a white star inset like this. I've done a fair bit of searching online, but I've come up empty handed.

 

Thanks in advance!

 

 

 

[Ted F]

I believe it's an Eversharp Aluminum "white star" pencil made roughly around 1940. A description of this can be seen in Jonathan A. Veley's "The Catalog of American Mechanical Pencils " on page 70, right-hand column. Unfortunately, his web site is not available anymore. According to his book "the 'white star' denoted an Eversharp guarantee of quality."

[FrozenPen]

Here's a link to Jonathan's (still online) article re: the white star pencil.

https://leadheadpencils.blogspot.com/2015/02/more-weird-stuff.html

Congrats. Your's is a very nice example.

[crescentfiller]

Many thanks to RoyalBear and FrozenPen! I had searched the Leadhead page but didn't see that article.

 

The one in the "Weird Stuff" photo is quite similar to mine. But I believe mine is celluloid (or even hard rubber?) rather than anodized aluminum; it is not chased; and the white star is enamel and set in a gold disc, much like the more typical gold seal, rather than aluminum set directly into the barrel; and it has two gold-filled bands, one wider than the other, above the clip.

 

So, further variations on the weird stuff!

 

I'd like to see the matching pen!

 

Thanks again

[Ted F]

I just looked at my pencil collection and found that I have one like yours except my two bands are the same size and the color is brown. I took the mechanism out of the pencil and looked at the housing. It looks and feels like aluminum.

[crescentfiller]

I just looked at my pencil collection and found that I have one like yours except my two bands are the same size and the color is brown. I took the mechanism out of the pencil and looked at the housing. It looks and feels like aluminum.

 

 

 

Is it chased like the one on the Leadhead page?

[Ted F]

The differences with my pencil: It is not chased, the tip says Thin Lead, on the back behind the clip it says "Genuine EVERSHARP Patented U S AMERICA", the star on mine is a gold medallion (no white star), and I was incorrect about the bands - they are two different widths (the small one above the large one).

[crescentfiller]

The pencil in the link also has Thin Lead on the tip, as does mine. However, I'm not quite sure what you mean by "the star on mine is a gold medallion (no white star)". Is there a disc/medallion with an impressed star shape that is not filled with white enamel? If so, I suspect it has simply worn away. I'll recheck the barrel material on mine.

[Ted F]

Following are photos of the pencil. I doubt the star was white and worn away. Other areas would also have to show wearing.

 

 

 

 

[jonveley]

I later ran an update to the article about these pencils:

 

https://leadheadpencils.blogspot.com/2018/04/my-new-latest-favorite-weird-eversharps.html

 

They are celluloid, and they have been documented. Looks like the star medallion might have been a transition from a double-check seal to the white star of 1940.