Leadholders & Clutch Pencils

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It’s fully metallic. It could be from any of the several French manufacturers that were making pencils based on the original Caran D’Ache design — but most likely by Fabrique Gilbert, who invented the embrayage pencil..

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Indeed Well, the fixpencil falls under that category that many people in France and Switzerland call a Critérium. It’s one of those names belonging to a specific product that eventually becomes the name of the thing regardless of their brand, like “Gillette”. I know a bit of the history of these pencils because I’ve always been a fool for them. They were based on a original design by Caran d’Ache — which technically makes them all fixpencils! — but in France just before WW2 a pe…