Any information about this leadholder?
It came from France about 4 or 5 years ago, if I remember correctly.
It uses 1.18mm leads and holds them very tightly.
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It looks very much like the leadholder in the Victorinox SOS kit.
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It seems a standard design for pencils which originally came attached to personal diaries; I suspect it goes back to anywhere between 1950 and 1970, but the error bars on the extreme dates are large: many have floated around after my proposed end date, and some were probably around much before my starting point. think about the bare-minimum bersion of this Filofax pencil accessory.
But, if it is much older, or made of precious metal, it could also date back to the time when the ladies had “dance carnets” where they noted down the order of precedence for the men who invited them for a dance at fancy parties for the bourgeoisie; close to 1910’s, possibly earlier (the design seems much more “modern”, however).
I have some of these “utility mini-pencils”, and they can be fun to use, even though they tend to roam a bit too much in my pencil boxes or in my bags; one has a pocket clip, another one has a triangular shape, one is an ad pencil… An interesting novelty item and, if you like 1.18mm lead, a very practical and nice way to rock some of those lead cores before/instead of looking for more expensive or more fragile options. 
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This is great! I think the S.O.S. is a closer match!
I am a big fan of 1.18mm leads and I have a huge stock of leads and pencils from that thickness.
@metal_punching_grip
I think this is as close as it can get. You have a nice memory to connect to the S.O.S. kit. Thank you very much.
@Leonov
I think you are referring to the “Stik” pencils. I collect many of them too…
Yeah, 1.18 is really fun, I love that diameter.
I mostly discovered it while visiting Turin many years ago: their shops still had plenty of coloured leads and a few pencil models; from that moment, down through the rabbit hole: the old twistaction Kaweco’s, the clutch Geha’s, the step-advance Pelikan Auch’s, the body-knock Pelikan 60, the “waistcoat-pencil” Pelikan D475, some Parker’s… all so cool and so nice to use!
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I’ve just recently started looking at the Pelikan 60, it might be a pipe dream because everyone wants more than alot for them
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Those are pretty expensive pencils
I got both the Pelikan Auch and the 60 at two different editions of the local Pen Show in my town; especially the latter was not a cheap purchase, but I managed to snag an almost pristine item at a price slightly lower than that of a contemporary Ebay listing (and the one on Ebay was an ad pencil with a spurious imprint); I also got the Kaweco Sport 18 where I keep my vermillion red lead, and a couple of Geha’s. Other pieces came through Ebay (for the Pelikan D475, the seller accepted an offer, but then again, not exactly a cheap transaction) and other platforms, and I would like to add a few more, even though I plan to streamline the sub-collection, limit myself to a few key specimens, and trade the extra pieces, sooner or later.
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Due to my Autopoint purchases, I have no room for Pilikan, Mont Blanc, Kaweco, etc. I have purchased most of the U.S. brands sold during the 1930s and 1940s. I have collected many of the cheaper advertising pencils. I am most interested in the history, rather than the actual writing. However, when it comes to writing, I use the Mark Sensing leads with the Autopoint Bakelite Oversized pencil (Model No. 46), which dates back to around 1935.
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1005&context=tradecatalogs
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