Some of these lighter pencils, like the Lite-O-Rite and the second generation Penciliters, are so graceful and well designed that you'd hardly know they were anything more than a beautiful pencil. Others, like yesterday's Havalite, obviously have something going on under the top, but still retain some sense of proportion.
And then there's a few that look like a Volkswagen parked on a toothpick . . .
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