So That's What That Is!

At the Ohio Show last November, Rob Bader had a couple things of which he couldn’t make heads or tails. They were in such bad condition that they didn’t really have any monetary value, but he thought they were too neat to just throw away – so instead, he put them in a picnic basket and in the dead of night, he left them on the doorstep at Jon’s Home For Orphaned and Wayward Pencils -- a cigar box in my basement that is sort of a halfway house between the garbage can and my collection.

Sometimes, one of the poor souls at JHFOWP will donate their important parts to get another pencil back on the road, and what’s left goes into the trash.  But every once in a while, in cases such as this, one will be identified as something special, even in its current state, and will be paroled as is into polite society.  Thinking about the American Perpetual from yesterday’s article, particularly when I looked at it with the cap removed to reload it, led me to finally identify this one:

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