Harder Than It Had To Be

Sometimes it just seems like this pencil research is harder than it has to be, and the "Reporter" was one of those times I really felt like I was going the long way around the barn (is that an Ohio saying or what?).

Long before The Catalogue was a glint in my eye, back when I was first setting up my Online Mechanical Pencil Museum, I had posted a picture of the "Reporter" accompanied by a caption that wasn't much more than "I dunno."

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