Such was the case with Bob Everett, who was sitting with Mike Kirk right behind me. Bob had brought a case or two of Sheaffer pens and pencils, and Mike was helping him identify what was what from copies of old Sheaffer catalogs Mike had brought along. I hadn’t met Bob before, but as we got to know each other I found out that he certainly comes by his interest in Sheaffer honestly – his father, Clyde Everett, was President of Sheaffer Pen Canada from 1957 until 1970.
I was able to help a little bit with dating the pencils that Bob had brought with him, and there was one pencil among all the others that, as I looked it over, I just had to ask him whether it was just for lookin’ or for sellin’:
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