I Was Hoping

This neat little sterling pencil case showed up in an online auction, and there wasn’t a lot the seller had right in the description:

The one thing he or she did have right was a date the seller said was on the barrel . . . August 9, 1892. It was right after I’d finished the first volume of my patent books, so it seemed like a good opportunity to see what I could find out. And there it was – the only pencil patented on that date:

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