Sunday, November 20, 2016

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This article has been edited and included in The Leadhead's Pencil Blog Volume 4; copies are available print on demand through Amazon here, and I offer an ebook version in pdf format at the Legendary Lead Company here.

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I almost cast this one aside when it popped out of the boxful of pencils I bought in DC: sure, it’s a neat graphic of a clothespin, I thought, but do I really need to start collecting those?


Fortunately, curiosity drove me to see what was inside.  While the pencil is unmarked, it is without doubt a chubby version of the Eagle automatic, printed with the same graphics from the box lid:


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