When I started this blog, I never imagined I would discuss fashion so often! But I have developed a taste for ladies' pencils, and they just naturally remind one of the days of hats and gloves, when people other than British royalty dressed more formally. These petites are more dressy than the flashier marble pencils. They were fashion accessories in their own times, and fit the fashions of the period.
Grey is the new black, so I heard tell. Here is a Ketcham and McDougall pin-on 4 inch pencil with retractable chain. These are nose drive pencils, but the mechanism works perfectly. This one probably dates to the late 1930s/early 1940s as it is celluloid, not plastic.
This is my first sterling silver Sheaffer, a bell-top (with ring) rear-drive pencil with ornate floral engraving, circa 1920-1925. It is a tiny 3 & 1/2 inches long. The flowers appear to be wild roses--the state flower of Iowa, where this pencil was made. It is attached to a pin-back Ketcham and McDougall accessory holder.
Another sterling rear-drive ring-top pencil, 4.25 inches, made by Wahl Eversharp, with leaf and flower design. It probably predates the Sheaffer pencil by a few years. It has a Doric column-capital top.
Finally, a Lady--the name for a Sheaffer "Tuckaway" 4 inch twist pencil with the thin center-band. It is striated silver and black celluloid with the petite clip and snub-nosed point that all the "Tuckaways" have. It sold for $3.50 between 1942 and 1947. Think suits with shoulder pads.
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