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Your Price: $ 9.99
Item Number: 2109 |
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Manufacturer: American Refrigerator Transit Company
Neat vintage find out of a home. This is a vintage mechanical pencil made by Quick Point in St. Louis, Missouri. It was made for the American Refrigerator Transit Company, also based in St. Louis, MO.
From some internet research, the American Refrigerator Transit Company made refrigerated train cars for transporting refrigerated goods on railroads. They began making refrigerator train cars in 1881 for the Missouri Pacific Railroad and the Wabash Railroad. The company is now a subsidiary of Union Pacific Corporation.
This vintage pencil measures about 5 1/2 inches in length and has rounded sides with a width of about 5/16 inch. The base color for this piece is a marbled pale yellow or pale amber type with a red band and red end cap and silver color for the pencil point and pocket hanger. The American Refrigerator Transit Company name is printed on the pencil body in black below a colored graphic of one of the refrigerator cars (and the company name appears also on this train car graphic). On the metal pocket hanger is imprinted "Quickpoint, St. Louis". While we don't know the exact age of this piece (we are not experts here), our guess is that it could date from the 1930's to 1960's.
As shown in several images, the end cap is removable with what appears to be the original pencil eraser still attached (the eraser feels hard to us so we don't know that it would work anymore as an eraser, but it is there). We can't tell if this is a working pencil or not. We don't see any lead in the point, nor see any when we twist the cap piece, and we don't have lead to try inserting here. Net, we just don't know if you could use this as a pencil today as found, so we are selling this as is/as found and can make no guarantees as to whether this piece works. We also have not attempted to clean this piece.
We've provided 8 images to try and show all sides, with and without the end cap, and close-ups. Please note that the camera lighting creates white "hot spot" reflections on the smooth pencil body. Please use the zoom feature to examine closely.
Very nice overall vintage used condition with expected wear but nothing bad. We see no chips, cracks, breaks or major scratches on this piece. The train car graphic (with dots of wear), company name and the marbled body design look good. There is expected age/wear with some darkening/general wear on the marble and red end cap, the hard condition of the eraser as stated earlier, much darkening/tarnishing/wear dots on the metal holding the eraser that gets hidden beneath the end cap, general wear/small scratches on the metal pocket hanger piece, wear/dots/some small scratches on the metal point piece, some spots/dots/dirt on the yellow marbled areas with some tiny indented lines (particularly on the end cap and near the pocket hanger), and likely other light general wear. While not mint or new looking, this piece has a great look with wear that supports its age.
A nifty addition for a railroadiana collection or one related to mechanical pencils in general or items/companies related to St. Louis, Missouri. |
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