Three and a Half Patterns of Note

It’s possible to spend a lifetime just assembling a collection of metal Eversharp pencils.  Any more, I only pick them up when there’s something really special about them.  Lately, a few have turned up that have definitely fallen into that category – one pattern that’s just hard to come by, two that I’ve never seen before, and a half of a pattern that ... ok, we’ll get to that one in a minute.

Starting with the hard to come by one, both of these turned up at the DC show:

The longer tips and the ribbed clip on the full-sized one indicate these are post-1924, and the patterns are groups of eight lines, with an intermittent wave of the four in the middle every so often:

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