Wheatley and Wilson

Wheatley & Wilson Ltd. was a large stationery and office supply store in Montreal, Quebec. They were incorporated in the early 1940s. They appear to have been in business until at least the late 1970s. I've seen a number of other Wheatley & Wilson branded stationary supplies including rulers, staples, hole punches, etc.

The pencils below are a hexagonal pencil with a white stripe painted on the ferrule. The No. 200 pencils come tipped with an eraser and the No. 100 pencil has no eraser. They came in seven degrees (B, HB, F 2 2/4, H, 2H, 3H and 4H). Stephen at Pencil Talk has a number of Wheatley and Wilson pencils in his collection. He has some nice history on his site. These pencils were most likely manufactured in one of the Canadian pencil factories... Dixon, Venus in Ontario or Eagle in Quebec.

Below is an entry from the Quebec Official Gazette from March of 1942.