PM072 Papermate Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Pencil, boxed.

PM072 Papermate Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Pencil, boxed.

Date: c1977

Size: Lengh - 5 3/16 inches.

This Papermate pencil is in excellent, undamaged condition. It is a special edition pencil that marks the Queen's Silver Jubilee in 1977.  This full-sized slim pencil has a very attractive bright chrome plated finish cap and chrome plated trim.  The cap has a flat top with the Papermate "double heart" pocket clip.  Around the lip of the cap is imprinted "PAPERMATE" and MADE IN USA",  The barrel is a very nice dark cocoa colour, with a very bold imprint with a silver coloured infill.  The point is chrome plated.  The cap pulls off to reveal an unused pink eraser with a few 0.9mm leads beneath.  It is an extend/retract pencil that accepts 0.9mm leads and works by twisting the cap.   I have installed a fresh 0.9mm lead into the mechanism and it is all ready to go.  The box is also in good condition though missing the original pad, though curiously, the plastic retaining clip is still in the box along with the original guarantee card.  The pads in these boxes were often flocked, and the flocking nearly always moults and sticks to the pencil so perhaps that is why the pad was discarded.  

The pencil works perfectly and is in lovely condition.