My Fair Children

Lately I’ve been getting more into Victorian pencils.  Here’s a few I’ve found recently:

All of these were made by Leroy W. Fairchild, the New York manufacturer who supplied nibs to the L.E. Waterman Co. early in Waterman’s history.  With the mechanisms advanced, they look like this:

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