One Heckuva Clip

Usually when you see these, they are found in black plastic. I’m glad one finally turned up with a little more pizzazz:

It’s one in the endless parade of those cheaply made middle-joint, nose drive pencils, but I’ve always liked that clip. Until recently, I had always read the clip to say "Waterbury Pen Company," and all of my leads were pointing to a ballpoint pen manufacturer trading in Waterbury, Connecticut around the 1950s – and no indication that concern ever made pencils or used a clip like this.

This time, however, I looked just a bit closer at this clip, and I noticed something else . . .

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