More About the Last Hurrah

A lot of what John Holland put out towards the end was really, really terrible. Like Eversharp, Holland kept going long after the company should have quit. There was one relative bright spot as the company slipped into history, though: the company put out some neat calendar pencils that I’ve written about here a couple of times (check out http://leadheadpencils.blogspot.com/2012/05/ill-never-surprise-jack.html and http://leadheadpencils.blogspot.com/2012/06/jacks-back.html).

I’ve got just a couple more sentences to add to this last chapter of the Holland story:

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