Make this your photography pet project… find new ways to shoot this trio of gems!
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So do you take them out of their original home or leave them in the box?
The struggle is real.
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Right now my collection is stored in four of these 5 drawer units (20 drawers) stacked next to each other. I ripped out the dividers and lined them with self adhesive felt pads.
I like looking at my pencils a bit, so the Uchida pencils and assorted accoutrement will probably occupy their own drawer.
If you go nuts you can cram about 19 Kerry’s in a drawer. Edit: more if you add horizontal pieces.
Edit: Toolbox light Jr. ?
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Congratulations!!! Enjoy!
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Congrats! They are beautiful writing instruments to behold. Nothing else quite like them. Elegant!
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Thanks Gary.
Hey @drifand (or anyone 
) do you know when these were sold and distributed?
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My estimate is mid 1970’s to early 1980’s, based on the packaging designs.
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Congrats on the set patrick 
I’d definitely leave them in the box if I were you. The boxed set looks amazing and you can use that drawer space for other pencils.
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I am using the same drawers currently with a roll of drawer liner and I love them. I got the idea from you actually so thank you!
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There are some misplaced pencils in this set 
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Someone did a nasty-swap thingy. 
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I think this is par for the course. Locals would have first dibs at a full set of Drawing Sharps and likely discarded the rest of the perfectly fine instruments. Instead, they swap in some spare pencils and try to maximise the resale value.
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I need assistance researching the Type E pencil. About a year ago, I recall seeing an auction for a golden Type E with pharmaceutical advertising, but I can’t remember where I saw it. I thought I saved the image, but I can’t find it. Does anyone have that image? I want to use it to identify the drug name, which could provide a data point for this pencil.
I found the post and the drug name - but image is lost to the internets 
https://forum.knockology.com/t/uchida-lot-for-a-lot/1602?u=pdunc67
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Yeah, that’s one of the annoying things about Mercari… there is no historical database available, unlike YAJ. Actually I have to wonder if Aucfree or Aucfan do their own trawling of the YAJ database and keep their own store… and due to space limitations keep it as pretty much a rolling 12 year cache. Or, maybe YAJ does keep it… and makes it available for a licensing fee.
Some Mercari auctions persist for a very long time after listing closure (I’ve seen one sit around for a year!)… while others may vanish shortly after the financial transaction is completed. I’ve even had Mercari listings I’d won where the listing vanished even before the item arrived in the proxy warehouse!
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I want to go on the record: I love the internet -
A follower on X had bought it -
This drug came out in 1971 - so that, and the good design award puts the Type E firmly in the early 1970s
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Excellent find! Yeah, there’s a wealth of knowledge out there… and sometimes there’s intersections of inquiry and response that can be so helpful. UCHIDA seems to still exist, but my inquiries to them netting nothing. I think there’s pretty much nothing left of the old company records.
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I have emailed them 5 or 6 times in the last year - Have yet to get a reposnse. 
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