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Sunday, November 2, 2025

Mighty Mites

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Eversharp: Cornerstone of an Industry covers the Eversharp Bantam line of pencils on pages 294 to 296; it shows most of them, but it didn’t...
Saturday, November 1, 2025

Zen and the Art of Picking

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After David Nishimura and I finished negotiating the purchase of a Victorian collection from Rob Bader in DC, Rob mentioned that he had a fe...
Friday, October 31, 2025

When Good Luck is a Bad Thing

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My “bank” of articles heading into the Ohio Show this weekend is pretty thin. I write these articles in advance and schedule them to publish...
Thursday, October 30, 2025

More on Racing Stripes

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As detailed on October 28, it was Ephraim S. Johnson and not Alonzo Cross who was awarded the design patent for “racing stripes” on writing ...
Wednesday, October 29, 2025

More on Ephraim Johnson

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As mentioned yesterday, Ephraim Johnson is best known for his “Pearl Patent” of December 5, 1871, which protected the manner in which he aff...
Tuesday, October 28, 2025

Racing Stripes: The Origin Story

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Many years ago, I wrote a series of articles exploring A.T. Cross after I photographed the late Jim Rouse’s collection at the 2012 Baltimore...
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