The Suns also Rise

You won’t see three of these in one place again anytime soon:

I posted about that full sized example of the "Sun Pocket Pencil" a couple years ago (http://leadheadpencils.blogspot.com/2012/03/walpuskis-ordinary-form-of-pencil.html), and just last month the Walpuski story got a boost in the course of writing about Melville’s Solid Ink Pencil (http://leadheadpencils.blogspot.com/2014/10/one-whale-of-pencil.html).

To learn more, this full article is included in The Leadhead's Pencil Blog Volume 3, available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble and everywhere else you buy books, or you can order a copy signed by yours truly through the Legendary Lead Company HERE.