Thursday, October 25, 2012

Do Two Centuries Make a Bicentennial?

One of the pencils Joe Nemecek brought with him to DC for me to photograph was this one. That was our deal when he called dibs in the online auction: he gets the pencil, I get to photograph it.

Joe’s pencil is stamped "Century Pen Company Whitewater Wis." on the side . . .

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  1. AnonymousOctober 26, 2012 at 2:40 PM

    Seeing that later pencil then begs the question, where are all/some/any of the pencils they made in 'missing' 20 plus years? I wonder if they had to shut down for some reason. Financial or personal issues, or even something going on in the country. Say the Great Depression for instance.

    Do you know anything about the owner/president of the company?

    Dennis

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