The Doomed Craftsman

Mike Little emailed me a few months ago to ask whether I had ever heard of a "Craftsman" from Chicago. My first thought was that Sears must have offered mechanical pencils marked branded after the store’s line of tools, but when this one arrived and I got a closer look at it, I thought this was probably something quite different:

The name is imprinted into the barrel, but as you can see, some of the material appears to be delaminating. This is an older picture- in the year or so since this was taken, even more of the lettering has been obliterated:

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