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| Formerly | Keeran & Co. (1914) Wahl-Eversharp |
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| Company type | Private |
| Industry | Writing implements |
| Founded | 1913 |
| Founder | Charles Rood Keeran |
| Defunct | 1957 [1] |
| Fate | Company acquired by Wahl in 1916, becoming "Wahl-Eversharp", then merged to Parker in 1957 |
| Headquarters | , |
| Products | |
Eversharp is an American brand of writing implements founded by Charles Rood Keeran in 1913 and marketed by Keeran & Co., based in Chicago.[1] Keeran commercialised Eversharp mechanical pencils (manufactured by two companies, Heath and Wahl),[2][1] then expanding to fountain pens when the company was acquired by the Wahl Adding Machine Co. in 1916 and it was named "Wahl-Eversharp". The company continued until 1957 when it was acquired by Parker Pen, which continued to use the Eversharp brand for a time.
Keeran is considered a pioneer maker of mechanical pencils,[3] as the inventor of the first successful one.[1]
- ^ a b c d Inventor Never Got Rewards of Pencil Business by Bill Kemp on The Pantagraph, Jul 14, 2013
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
penartwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Charles Keeran, a Mechanical Pencil Pioneer Archived 2010-06-16 at the Wayback Machine on University of Nebraska-Lincoln