Hold the Phone

At the Chicago Show, in my waning days of "I’m not normally a wood pencil guy" denial, I just had to have this one.  Terry Mawhorter had it on his table. The chrome plated holder contains a tiny Eagle Mikado pencil, and with a great patent number on it, I knew there’d be more to the story . . .

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