Feeling Blue

I will always have a spot for the humble Blue Jay. A ringtop example was featured here the very first week of the blog (http://leadheadpencils.blogspot.com/2011/11/one-i-didnt-think-i-really-wanted.html):

Blue Jay pencils were produced by the Blackwell-Wielandy Book and Stationery Company of St. Louis, which offered several products under that trademark. Produced, mind you, not manufactured . . . I never thought that the company got a wild hair to set up the machinery and equipment to start making metal pencils out of the "blue," if you’ll forgive the pun.

To learn more, this full article is included in The Leadhead's Pencil Blog Volume 3, available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble and everywhere else you buy books, or you can order a copy signed by yours truly through the Legendary Lead Company HERE.

The one I didn't think I really wanted

We pen and pencil collectors drive the people that work in antique malls nuts.  We are always asking to look at things in locked display cases.  Most of the time, as soon as we see whatever it is close up we say "no thank you" and hand it right back.

Be honest, now -- how many times have you bought something you didn't really want just because you felt obligated to buy something after looking at things in seventeen different cases?

I thought that was going to be the case with this piece . . .

NOTE:  This article is now included in the print version of The Leadhead's Pencil Blog, available anywhere you buy books, or also from The Legendary Lead Company.

To order, here's the link:  Volume 1 at Legendary Lead Company