The Autopointiest

A while ago I was chasing a Sheaffer's jewelers' band ebonized pearl pencil on ebay.  The pencil appeared to be the lone star in a large lot-- the kind of lot that looked like someone's desk drawer simply emptied out onto a tabletop and photographed.

Since the pencil appeared in my jewelers' band article during "Sheaffer Week" a while ago, it's obvious that I won the lot.  But as I culled through the other tagalongs in the padded envelope I received, there was also a pocketknife in the grouping:

NOTE:  This article is now included in the print version of The Leadhead's Pencil Blog, available anywhere you buy books, or also from The Legendary Lead Company.

To order, here's the link:  Volume 1 at Legendary Lead Company