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I've had this pencil for a number of years, but only took it out of the drawer in the past few weeks. It came in a bargain lot of pens and pencils on eBay, and it was a couple of the fountain pens that actually interested me. But coming across this when going through my things, I decided to try cleaning it off, and putting an old 0.046 inch (1.18 mm) lead in it. And it turns out to be nice enough to use, comfortable in the hand, a good size and weight. It won't become an absolute favorite, and it's not one I'd take with me everywhere, but it's in my main writing area at home. The material appears to be Bakelite, or something similar. At any rate, it doesn't look like a modern plastic. The marbled pattern of light and dark brown is more attractive than quite comes across in my pictures. The only writing is some worn engraving around the top cap. Getting a good picture of that defeated me, but it almost certainly says "Autoscript" in a flourishy cursive. The standard notices "PATD AND PATS PEND" and "USA" are in block capitals, and still clearly legible. Here is a disassembled view: This particular twist mechanism may not be the best, partly because it only takes very short pieces of lead, but it does work. The old leads that I have in there seem about the equivalent of an HB. The top cap covers a small compartment that seems to be for spare leads; I doubt that there was ever an eraser in there. On the whole, probably nothing that special, but it seems interesting, and likely old enough to count as "vintage". Some searching on this site and on the web has come up with nothing. Does anyone know anything about pencils of this general pattern, or this one in particular?