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Still, Stephen had one that stood out a little from the others in the crowd, and since Stephen made the effort to bring them for me, I felt the need to make an effort to take at least one of them home:
In the canon of the Penciliter, this was the first generation - before they were streamlined to look like something the Rocketeer would have in his pocket while he flew around.
I couldn’t recall seeing one with that nice engine turning on the top:
And there was something about that mechanism . . . something couldn’t quite put my finger on . . .
When I arrived home and compared this one to the ones in my collection, I was pleased to see that I was right about the pattern – I hadn’t seen one like that after all – and better still was that there was indeed something about that mechanism, too:
If I were to bet, I’d say that the new addition is older, made with a less refined flathead screw securing the lighter trigger to the barrel which was later replaced with a pivot point. I think that’s supported by the patent stamped on it: Design patent 92,996, applied for by Louis Aronson on June 11, 1934:
When I last wrote about first generation Penciliters, back in March of 2012, I referenced this design patent. However, I didn’t notice a discrepancy between the drawings and the Penciliters I had on hand. This new example, however, matches the patent drawing to a tee:
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