I'd Better Correct This "Right Away"

Here’s an Eagle "Ritaway" I found amongst David Silber’s pencil hoard at the Raleigh Show in June.

Ritaways are really interesting pencils, sporting painted wooden barrels. This one has a particularly unusual paint job that looks more at home with a lava lamp than with a flapper . . .

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