Black ferrule, notched, with gold band. Red Ruby eraser.
“Half The Pressure, Twice The Speed”
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17 Friday Jan 2020
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17 Friday Jan 2020
Posted in History
Black ferrule, notched, with gold band. Red Ruby eraser.
“Half The Pressure, Twice The Speed”
The holy grail. This may be the only version I’ve never come across in the wild.
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It seems that there were black ferrules with notches just as there were gold ones, but it must have been during a comparatively narrow time period. Otherwise, I think there’d just be more around. My guess is that the ferrules with alterations, such as this one and the one with the arrow in it, skew closer to the earlier versions. After a short run, perhaps it was a little too complicated and/or expensive to continue with those alterations.
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I wonder, too, to what extent they did their own metal stamping at Greenpoint. They did their own assembly, but there must have been a third-party manufacturer for some items.
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Here’s something: from the Directors’ meeting of the E. Faber Pencil Company, September, 1900. The issue involves a large amount of defective pencil tips, and mention is made of the Franklin Manufacturing Company. Some brief searching yielded some information about that company, including that they folded in the 1930s. There is a company with the same name that operates today, though I haven’t looked into whether they are related.
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It doesn’t get any better than this .
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