Odds and Ends

Menash Signatures had a great Sheaffer repairman’s kit on his table at the Philadelphia show this year - a great, heavy oak box with a metal "Sheaffer’s" plaque mounted on the lid. Inside the box were all kinds of repair parts and tools for fixing early Sheaffer fountain pens. Although I’m no pen expert, it looked to date from the 1920s.

But laying in the upper tray were these odds and ends, which were significantly younger and didn’t have anything to do with pens:

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