Any Skillcraft experts here?

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The creator of a YouTube channel I really enjoy, Moving About and Manipulating Objects – who also does pencil reviews – happens to be subscribed to my channel too. He’s kindly sent me a bunch of these SKILCRAFT pencils. I don’t know a ton about them beyond their strong connection to the National Industries for the Blind.

He’s encouraged me to take a closer look and try to figure out if any of them are rebranded or OEM versions of Japanese models (or similar equivalents from elsewhere). To help with identification, I fully extended the erasers on the twist-erase style ones.
Any recommendations for solid online resources to dig deeper? My initial searches haven’t yielded much.

Do any of these look familiar but branded differently? If you have some, could you please post pictures?

EDIT: I meant to mention how the Dual Action looks very similar to the Pentel QE305 and QE405

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Not exactly what you’re asking, but the Skilcraft B3 Avivator multipen is identical to the Japanese Penco multipen, which is also available under other brands like Tanosee, Hedera… I don’t know which one was first but it uses an internal mechanism that is also found in many Japan-made multipens so I assume the original model is Japanese. @drifand has suggested that the OEM could be Kotobuki.

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Thank you - I’m sure its all connected some way -

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One time I ordered one of those Autopoint Twinpoint’s (the one that says US Gov) on Ebay, and the seller sent me a taped-up empty bag with a shipping label on it. Was pretty funny lol

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I actually like Skillcraft. Mostly because they’ve been to space.

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