The Clipectomy Was A Success

Matt McColm sent me a care package a few weeks ago that included this little gem:

It’s a WASP (short for W. A. Sheaffer Pen Co.) Pencil in the unusual "lahn" pattern, in which strips of tinfoil were inlaid into the celluloid. It’s a great pencil that I didn’t have, and the mechanism works great, but there’s one obvious problem with it:

Someone apparently forgot that you’re supposed to replace all divots! What’s happened here is that the clip, which was stapled into the barrel, was pulled away from the barrel, still clutching the rectangular shaped piece of celluloid in its prongs. Is the pencil a total loss? Well, knowing that I couldn’t really do any harm to it, I took up the challenge to fix this poor little guy back up again.

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