Topping Off a Pearlie

I have more fun with the stuff costing just a couple bucks than I do with those costing hundreds of dollars. Take this one, which turned up at last year’s Ohio show:

It took a minute for me to figure out why this one looked a little different. It’s a Sheaffer "Pearlie" (or "Pearl Center" pencils, if you choose to speak the King’s Sheafferese). But it’s no ordinary Sheaffer Pearlie – in fact, it’s the only one like it I’ve ever seen. This one is a thin model (shown here next to one of the usual girth):

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