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Company. Somewhat confusingly, the Wahl Pen Company used the Wahl name for its pens and the Eversharp name for its pencils. At the end of the 1920s, however, the company renamed itself Wahl-Eversharp, and all products, pens and pencils alike, were marked accordingly. In 1941 the company renamed itself, this time as Eversharp. It remained a major player throughout the 1940s, but a series of missteps in its attempts to enter the then-new field of ballpoint pens hurt the company badly. In 1957 the Parker Pen Company acquired Wahl-Eversharp. The
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233:"On my way home on the train I had time to study it carefully... the thing that impressed me about it was the crudeness of the device … I realized that the public was willing to pay from $ 3.50 to $ 5 for a good fountain pen and I could see no reason why they wouldn't pay as much for a fine pencil."
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Eversharp pencil was a huge success. By 1921 over 12 million had been sold. The Eversharp allowed Wahl to become one of the leading manufacturers of both pencils and pens. Wahl's entry into the fountain pen business in 1917 was also facilitated by Charles Keeran, through purchase of the Boston
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attempted to revive the Wahl-Eversharp brand, working independently at first, then joining efforts. In 2012, they secured abandonments of the original Wahl and
Eversharp trademarks and filed new trademarks for a new venture, reviving the brand name as the "Wahl-Eversharp Company", a wholly owned
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Eversharp pens and pencils had come to an end. However, accessories such as refills continued to be sold under the brand until 1999, when it was discontinued.
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Charles Rood Keeran, 65, who was associated for many years with the mechanical pencil, will be held at 2:30 p.m. Saturday in the chapel at ...
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