New Order from JetPens

For Christmas I got to order from JetPens. Thanks family. The package got here in 3 days. I do like those new Pentel Tradios from France. By the time I ordered they were already out of the Blue and Red Tradios.

Pentel Super Multi 8 HP803

Here is a pentel that I have been waiting on. The pentel HP803. At the bottom is the HP158 and I will start with that one. Sometimes called a bible highlighter, it has 8 different color 2mm leads. There appears to be three in the line of HP 800 series multi pencil/pens starting with the HP801 (Not Pictured) which had a DNC and a PPC non copying lead plus had a 2B, B, HB, H, blue and red lead. There was also a HP802 (Not Pictured) which had a DNC and PPC non copying lead plus red, blue, brown, orange, yellow and green 2mm lead. The HP803 Super Multi 8 pictured above appears to be the top of the line, three ball point pens and five leads. You have black, blue and red fine point ball pens, red pencil lead, pink and yellow fluorescent leads, PPC non copy lead and a standard HB lead. All this in a light weight multi pencil/pen body. The HP803 has the standard clutch action for advancing the lead just like standard 2mm pencils. When you advance the ballpoint pens only the point comes out. As with many 2mm pencils the HP803 must be turned upside down to retract. Great item for Pentel and multi pen/pencil collectors and it works great.

My 100th Post

My first post was on 13 May 2009. Here we are at 100. What picture should I use? Well, everything that takes place in the supply room comes across my desk. So the desk it is for number 100. My desk, just like yours has the 300 plus pens and pencils, notebooks, rulers, erasers, 8 track tape players and more supplies then I could ever use. Pretty normal stuff for us in the office/school supplies business. I also want to thank all my new blogger friends who helped me get to my 100th post and the many followers. Post number 101 will be the review of the much anticipated Pentel HP 803 Super 8 multi pen/pencil.

My Pentel Collection

Here is my Pentel collection. As always I have left some out. My Smash pen and pencil set, A red R-4 roller, my clicroller RC26 and a few others. To many shelves to check. The plastic lead holder rack on the right does have other makes in it but I have to keep the lead and erasers somewhere. I have been collecting Pentel since the 70s and they are one of my favorites. My collection is nothing like over at pencils 11 but we do try. The Pentel cases were a lucky find and do make it easy to store many of the pen and pencils.

More New Items

A few new items for the supply room. DIVOGA ball points, .05mm pencils and rollerballs on the left from OfficeMax. Center is the rolle' rollerball pens with case from FORAY and Office Depot. On the right is the much anticipated OXO Good Grips from Staples. OXO also has a three pack of markers but we ran out of cash.

M900 Scripto Wordmaster Pencil Display

Can't say much more about the Scripto Wordmaster then Sam just said over at Future; Nostalgic so I will show what a counter display stand would look like back in 1946. The stand is cardboard and holds a dozen pencils. Four Black, four Red and four Blue. The Wordmaster has to be the most elegant pencil Scripto ever made. Add one to your collection. Thanks Sam for all the kind comments and great post.

More Sterling Plastic Items

May and June of this year I posted most of my Sterling Plastic Company Collection. Any low cost, made in the USA school or office supply item was made by Sterling Plastic. Rulers, Protractors, pencil boxes, slide rules and pencil sharpeners were made by Sterling Plastic. I did not post the plastic storage boxes. Here we have four great examples. Back left is the letter file small storage box model #274. To the right is the large letter file storage box, I believe the model is a #275. Up front are two check files model #273. These all work and are from the 70s or early 80s. If you are looking for these try and find ones with the red,white and blue labels still attached. Rulers are also sterling Plastic.