The Antipencil

I don’t know what the Weldon Roberts Rubber Company’s problem with us pencil guys was. Here’s a company from Newark, New Jersey, whose sole business purpose was to invent new and exciting ways to undo anything you could do with a pencil. Just take a look at this advertisement, from the December, 1922 issue of Office Appliances:

"If there is any need not provided for in this line we are not aware of it." Yep, this company prided itself on having thought of every conceivable way to get the lead out.  And that even included a wolf in sheep’s clothing – or actually, the eraser in pencil’s clothing:

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