Norma mechanical pencil

[ndw76]

Fountain pens are great, but when you need something else a mechanical pencilwill do. I found this Norma mechanical pencil in a batch of fountain pen for repair. As far as mechanical pencils go this one is cool. This one gives you a choice of four colours. A four colour mechanical pencil. For a geek like me this is cool. DSC_0420.jpg

[Mags]

Very nice does it have four separate side levers to engage the different colour feeds. If you can share a few more angles for the pen pictures that would be appreciated.

Mags

[ndw76]

It does have four separate slides. One for each colour. It has red, blue, green, and black. I'll take some more photos a little later.

[Bogon07]

What size leads does it use 0.5mm or something thicker ?

You could also load it with different grades 8H, HB, F, 2B for instance.

[ndw76]

It takes 1.1 mm leads.

[Twopens]

Nearly everything you ever wanted to know about Norma pencils: http://www.roger-russell.com/normapg.htm. And if you go to his main page, you'll get links to Scripto pencils and Jefferson Golden Hour clocks and enough other knowledge to keep you busy for days.

[Halfhyde]

Nearly everything you ever wanted to know about Norma pencils: http://www.roger-russell.com/normapg.htm. And if you go to his main page, you'll get links to Scripto pencils and Jefferson Golden Hour clocks and enough other knowledge to keep you busy for days.

I know where Roger got that very short transparent blue Scripto that is on a keychain that he has on his site I sold it to him

Michael Little
Phoenix, AZ

[jonveley]

These are fun to collect. Older models have ball clip -I've got one in gold fill. Some variations have a ballpoint pen for the fourth "color."

[Halfhyde]

These are fun to collect. Older models have ball clip -I've got one in gold fill. Some variations have a ballpoint pen for the fourth "color."

The Norma is just the tip of the iceberg as far as multi-color or four-color pens and pencils go. In Germany. Fend was a big player in the 4 color market and also manufactured the Fend Super Norma, which was often goldplated and often had jeweled top ends.

When I first started collecting, these multi-colored models were my main focus. I had hundreds of them. In recent years I have sold most of them off, as is the case with my entire collection. My prize was a fat Goldfink double plated gold six color mechanical pencil. I had 3 of those.Those were amazing.

Someday I expect to see someone write a book on the multi-colored pens and pencils...not that some folks who hang out here need an excuse to write a book, eh Jon?

I received a nice lot of pencils this morning and in the lot was a Chase 4 color mechanical pencil. It had two U.S. Patent office patent numbers on it that went back to Kurt Fend.


Michael Little
Phoenix, Arizona

[jimmcswell]

beautiful pen baby, really beautiul pen! ♥