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I almost cast this one aside when it popped out of the boxful of pencils I bought in DC: sure, it’s a neat graphic of a clothespin, I thought, but do I really need to start collecting those?

Fortunately, curiosity drove me to see what was inside.  While the pencil is unmarked, it is without doubt a chubby version of the Eagle automatic, printed with the same graphics from the box lid: