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Thursday, July 26, 2012
Real Housewives of Minneapolis
At an online auction recently, I noticed a group of pencils – mostly not very good ones – in a single lot. One attracted my attention, because the seller indicated it was stamped "Dow Patent 3-6-23." As I am always the sucker for names and patent dates I’ve not seen before, I had to bite just to see what it was all about. Here’s the pencil, and just as the seller described, there was the imprint on the bell top . . .
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To order, here's the link: Volume 1 at Legendary Lead Company
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Cool research and dig that crazy clip man!
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