Red-Banded Moore Ringtop

In another 4 years, this Moore ringtop will be an authentic 100 year old antique.  This rear-drive, hard rubber and gold-filled pencil dates from the earliest Moore patent issued on August 15th, 1922.  It is the same age as the Moore double banded ringtop in an earlier blog, Moore for Me, Please!  Jon Veley discovered that the single band pencils came from a design line called "Luxor," while the double band pencils were listed as the "Colonial" line.

It is a 4.25 inch pencil with the Moore inscription, but that is all, and at that, the bottoms of the letters are nearly covered by the hard rubber.  The color was originally black, but now it appears to be an olive green/brown.   I suspect that the hard rubber and decorative bands are a sleeve that was fitted over a plain-barrel metal pencil.  It has a classic look, almost modern.

It uses 1.1mm lead, and the pencil is working well at age 96.  Here is the 1922 red-banded Moore ringtop with the other 1922 patented pencil and the 1925 marble pencil, also featured in the earlier blog.

Since the first two, I did find more Moores, thank you.

See also:

Marble Mini-Moore.

Pencil Sketch--Sabot

See the real sabot in my earlier blog:

A Waterman's Waterman