Another Early Rex Customer

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I continue to find more evidence that the Rex Manufacturing Company was the most important pencil manufacturer you never heard of. Here’s another example that turned up recently:

Looks like William Welty was another customer of Rex:

And from the patent imprint, he was an early one!