Too Bad I Don't Have Two 2uinn's To Show You

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I’m pretty sure it was on Mike Bloom’s table at the DC show that this one turned up:

The Rex Manufacturing Company is a pet project of mine, and this one, marked “Quinn’s” with what looks more like a big “2" at the beginning, is a member of that family:

This one bears the classic “four horsemen” patents (for a complete rundown of what these dates signify, see http://leadheadpencils.blogspot.com/2013/03/prequel-lets-make-that-birth-death-and.html):