Friday, March 2, 2012

Eversharp Week Part 5: Fraternal Twins

Can you tell the difference between these two pencils?

That's not a fair question, really, because the difference isn't visible from this angle.  Here's a shot of the tops . . .

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1 comment:

  1. David NishimuraMarch 1, 2012 at 7:31 AM

    By all evidence, the drilled Gold Seals were for the closeout of old stock at the end of the '30s (I believe a sale flyer documenting this was published in the 1980s in the Pen Fancier's Magazine). So it wasn't that Wahl-Eversharp was offering the same items at the same time in two versions, one with guarantee and the other without.

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