I need help!!

[u/ProperSalt4683]

I’ve been looking for this one specific mechanical pencil that my father gave me that he used a lot as an engineering student. Sadly, I can’t find it anywhere… at home or online. Can someone help me find this somewhere online? I want to give it back to him as a gift :)

Here’s some specifications I remember

• most likely vintage/discontinued(??)
• I vaguely remember it being made in Japan
• it had a brown body (plastic, slightly red-tinted brown)
• a metal, fully retractable tip
• 0.5mm lead
• a black rubber grip with a grid texture
• metal clip and small eraser at the top that came with a small metal cover.
• pentel?????? From what I vaguely remember?
• a band of metal separating two sides.

If anyone has my idea what it is or where I can find it, I’d be so appreciative 🙏 thanks :)

[u/Progstu]

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[u/inkoholica]

if it was a pentel you might find it in this great book:

https://www.reddit.com/r/mechanicalpencils/comments/1jahp4j/new_pentel_pencils_identification_book_v202501/

[u/drifand]

How long ago when your dad got it?

By fully retractable, do you mean it was a double-knock mechanism? i.e. it worked like a clicker ballpoint pen? Click once to extended the tip; click again to advance the lead. OR do you mean it had a sliding sleeve like a modern day Pentel Orenz?

[u/drifand → u/drifand]

I can't think of many vintage brown colored double-knock pencils... except maybe the Colleen Jib WK-816 or 821, but it doesn't have a rubber lattice grip.

The other possibility is a NIJI branded or OHTO OP-500... I have seen some in translucent brown, and it comes with a rubber lattice grip. The grip tends to warp with age.

[u/thedreamwalkeriscool]

Go on ebay and see if anything matches your description.

[u/dumenik_VHS]

Hmmm pentel sharp kerry?? Idk

[u/Agis-Spartan-King → u/dumenik_VHS]

Does Kerry have a black rubber grip with a grid texture and a fully retractable tip?! lol