Eversharp Pen Co. Today

[Jerome Tarshis]

All right, I don't do much writing with ballpoint pens, but I do some, and here I am scrabbling around in a drawer for a generic refill that fits Cross BPs. My memory is working, I find the refill, it is on a card whose printed matter is dated 1996, the refill is said to have been made in China, and the logo looks like an Eversharp logo.

 

Company said to be in Franklin Park, Illinois. Upon searching with Google, I find no mention that it is connected with Parker (which I think is the company that bought failing Eversharp decades ago), nor with Sanford, nor with Newell Rubbermaid. Who is it connected with? Are there Eversharp BPs that use Eversharp BP refills today? Are there new Eversharp fountain pens, unbeknownst to me?

 

At FPN I found a thread dating back to 2007, at the end of which Syd Saperstein said he'd like more information. Me, too. The BP refill is, so far, not a world-beater, but it had been sitting in the drawer for five if not ten years before I plucked it out, and since oil-based inks can be insanely durable in a refill, the output may improve before long. But what do we know about the company?

 

As for what it's doing today, it seems to have gotten from mechanical pencils and then nibbed pens and ballpoint pens to instruments for applying antimicrobial agents, possibly quite helpful in our sick, sick world. (As some perceive it.)

 

Eversharp today, it says here: http://www.eversharpproducts.com/abouteversharp.html

[Ernst Bitterman]

My understanding was that until at least the time of the release of the resurrected Skyline in 1995, Parker had held onto the name which they'd bought in 1957 and more or less retired in 1961, in much the same way as one will keep a piece of string in a kitchen drawer. I suppose it's possible that Newell/Rubbermaid have either spun off a new company or sold the name to another concern; the website harking back to a 1912 establishment is a little disingenuous.

 

I also go in constant terror of antimicrobial products, since they seem to mainly exist to breed up multi-resistant microbes.

[Ernst Bitterman]

...which is not to say my understanding is anywhere near perfect. Let's link to a rather comprehensive thread that's developed.

[HBlaine]

I remember "Eversharp" branded refills that aped the design of Fisher Space Pen refills. As I recall these had a happy tendency to burst at the writing tip, leaving a really beautiful mess.

 

Thankfully, none of these ever made it into any pen I owned.

Edited May 28, 2012 by HBlaine

[Wahlnut]

The above posts relate to a pretty well documented history on this forum and a search of the forum for Wahl or Eversharp History might prove useful. Nonetheless. The website that poster number 1 visited is indeed the legitimate tail of the dog called Eversharp and whose history from a legal trade name point of view does indeed go back that far. The Fisher Space pen is also related to the Eversharp line of products.

 

This forum has been around for quite some time now and I think if you search for it you can find almost everything you might want to know about the lineage and history. A very recent addition was made in the last few days under the Topic Eversharp News. Because so much of the information is fragmented I will post and pin the family tree of Wahl Eversharp soon and add it to the Wahl facts page of my website as well. I will be vacationing next week and then I will have the time.

Syd