I will be taking a 2 week holiday from work, any items purchased during this time will be delayed from posting from the 15/12/23 to 1 /1/24. So if you are looking to buy a Christmas present or gift do not delay.
Brand new perfect museum quality new old stock box of leads.
A rare chance to buy a museum worthy set of 70 lead cases some of which are really rare these include blue and red cases. I do not wish to split this boxed display set. I have seen one red and one blue cased versions for sale for over £90. Yes just 2 of these so mine are very reasonably priced and took me years to collect.
Yes the display case is included in the price.
These leads are new old stock and come as would have been purchased 100 years ago from a shop a couple of the cases have been opened but I have included them as they are rarer sizes and I have 6 more new common tubes I would add to the sale so all in display box would be new old stock.
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If you send me a picture of the pencil you are looking to find lead for I will do my best to help you.
Fits most Sampson Mordan pencils and mabbie Todd and other popular makes
feel free to look through my other items for sale as I have one of the finest collections of writing ecutiment and I specialise in Sampson mordan.
NEW OLD STOCK
THESE ULTRA RARE ITEMS DO NOT COME AVAILABLE VERY OFTEN.
FOR GOLD & SILVER PENCILS
This is as good as it get folks, one for the serious collectors
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The last picture illustrates part of my collection of Sampson Mordan and is not included in the price but will be for sale soon.
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Please look at all my other great Sampson MORDAN items I have for sale. I consider myself one of the leading sellers of Sampson MORDAN in the world. I have what must be considered one of the largest private collections with hundreds of key pieces sold and hundreds to be listed soon. I gladly offer combined postage.
MARKS - HALLMARKS - HISTORY
Sampson Mordan (1770-1843), apprentice and assistant of the mechanic John Bramah, established his own business in 1815.
The first patent for a "metal pencil with an internal mechanism for propelling the graphite 'lead' shaft forward during use" was obtained in 1822 (his co-inventor was John Isaac Hawkins).
In 1823 Mordan bought out the rights of Hawkins, entering his first mark as "smallworker" in London Assay Office on 9 June 1823 (SM oblong). In 1824 he entered in partnership with Gabriel Riddle, registering a new mark (SM.GR) in London Assay Office.
The partnership with Riddle was dissolved in 1836 and he continued the business as S. Mordan & Co. Sampson Mordan died in 1843 and the business was taken over by his sons Sampson (Jr) and Augustus. They were later joined by Edmund George Johnson and Zachariah Watkins who retired in 1879.
After the death of Sampson Mordan (Jr) his share of the business passed to his brother Augustus, joined as partner in 1890 by Harry Lambert Symonds.
In 1898 the company was converted to a limited liability company under the name of S. Mordan & Co Ltd.
In 1933 the distribution rights on the propelling pencil business were given to L. G. Sloan Ltd, and in 1941, following the destruction of the factory by enemy bombing, the patents were sold to Edward Baker. The firm went into voluntary liquidation in 1952.
Between the 1820s and 1870s the firm obtained more of 160 patents for various mechanical pencils. The first spring-loaded mechanical pencil was patented in 1877 and a twist-feed mechanism was developed in 1895.
In addition to pencils the firm had a large production line of small silver and gold items, most of them belonging to the type of "novelties" so popular at the end of the 19th/beginning of the 20th century. They were supplied to many retailers, including Asprey & Sons and the Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Co. Ltd.