RARE GEORGE W HEATH ROSE GOLD TORPEDO PENCIL VINTAGE ANTIQUE OLD NEEDS REPAIR
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RARE GEORGE W HEATH ROSE GOLD TORPEDO PENCIL VINTAGE ANTIQUE OLD NEEDS REPAIR:
$1250.00
George W Heath EngravedRose GoldTorpedo Magic PropellingPencil
Pictures tell the story (some small dings)
Heath is a name well known to pen collectors -- though less for their own pens and pencils than for the overlays they supplied to some of the most prominent American penmakers at the beginning of the 20th century. Heath overlays are found on the pens of Waterman, Parker, Conklin, Moore, A. A. Waterman, Carey, and others, yet little is currently known about how the companies worked together, or for how long. Some Heath articles can be identified by a maker\'s mark, the most common of which is an \"H\" in a square, the square with two short lines extending right and left -- but this mark is only seen on silver, never on gold or gold filled items.Heath\'s maker\'s mark \"G.W.H & Co\"is most common on gold filled pencils.
It\'s no accident that its styling recalls the streamlined golf pencils of the 1920s and \'30s, for this is a very late magic pencil. The design, with the screw-off lead reservoir shown below, was the subject of US patent 1,514,965 -- the very last of Heath\'s writing equipment patents. The application was submitted on July 19, 1922 and the patent was issued on November 11, 1924. The \"PAT. APP. FOR\" imprint locates the pencil between those two dates.
marked = G.W.H. & Co on pull & on barrel
marked \"PAT. APP. FOR\"
pencil weight =16.7 grams
no monogram
This pencil needs repair, all the pieces of the pencil are present and in very good condition.
The pencil will not easily open and close without some help.
Still a very collectable item even with these issues.
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RARE GEORGE W HEATH ROSE GOLD TORPEDO PENCIL VINTAGE ANTIQUE OLD NEEDS REPAIR:
$1250.00