WA712 Waterman Pencil

WA712 Waterman Pencil

Date: c1950

Size: Length - 122mm.

A rather nice English Waterman's pencil from the late 1940s or early 1950s in the rather attractive grey striated celluloid.  It is in very good condition with some very minor surface wear (tiny scratches mainly) to the barrel and cap and some little red lines near the barrel imprint which I first took to be part of the celluloid colouring but I think they are probably some kind of surface staining.  The cap is fitted with a Deco-style Waterman's pocket clip in gold fill with the ribbing at the shoulder and this is held on by a small gold filled top button with a concave upper surface.  The cap will unscrew to reveal the remains of the original pink eraser.  At the top of the barrel is a single gold filled band with stippled decoration to the top and bottom surface.  Mid-barrel is the imprint which quite shallow but nonetheless complete.  The point is gold filled also.  This is a propel-repel pencil that works by twisting the point.  I have fitted a fresh 1.18mm lead into the mechanism, so it should be all ready to go.    

I have fully serviced this pencil.  It works perfectly.