It’s another Rite Rite "torpedo" pencil (that’s my description, not an official name), patented by Herbert H. Lang on August 22, 1933 (patent number 1,923,153), although he filed his patent application two years earlier, on August 27, 1931 . . .
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2 comments:
I have a Nassau pencil in that same blue "clown" celluloid. Hmmmm...
Hey Harry, send me a picture of that one and I'll run a follow-up article -
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