Berol double knock

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I picked this up a couple of years ago on eBay because I hadn’t seen one before, and I’ve yet to find any information on this model either. Has anyone else seen one of these before?

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The inner mechanism is nearly identical to that of the Pentel PSD5, except that it is slightly shorter and has no date code; as mentioned in another thread about the PSD5 it was noted that it has a date code pattern that doesn’t match any other Pentel. Whatever reason there was for that, it wasn’t duplicated for Berol.

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The inner mechanism isn’t just similar, it is constructed identically, even down to the curiously threaded plastic on brass double knock gearing (Berol on top, Pentel on bottom).

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And with a front half that looks so much like H-1005, I am surprised it doesn’t have Pilot internals. Berol keeping us on our toes.

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I got one of these in the Berol rounded tubular packaging. It is called RET-5. That’s all I have.

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My first thought was “that’s a white-labeled H-1005.”

Absolutely love this pencil and gotta have one now :grin: