Twelve Eagles . . . Eagling

I know, the twelve days of Christmas start on Christmas day. I just don’t want to wait that long to tell you about these. The Eagle Spear is a longtime favorite of mine:

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A Few More Neat Eagles

I’ve found some really neat early pencils from the Eagle Pencil Company this year.  But I haven’t found them all.  Not by a longshot.

For example, Dan Linn had to send me a picture to let me know that the “Leopard,” which I featured here back on February 6 in yellow and purple (see “Sharpening My Understanding of the Spear” at http://leadheadpencils.blogspot.com/2013/02/sharpening-my-understanding-of-spear.html), also came in red:

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Sharpening My Understanding of the Spear

When Arthur Cox met me at the Philadelphia Pen Show with his boxes of goodies in hand, I found out just how little I actually knew about the Eagle Spear and its variations.

The most "normal" of the Spears Arthur had were these, one in black with gilt bands and the other in the more uncommon red or "russet."

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All I Knew About These Was Just the Tip of the . . . Spear

Back on March 29, 2012, I wrote an article here about the Eagle Spear (http://leadheadpencils.blogspot.com/2012/03/award-for-least-inspiring-patent-goes.html ), showing of a few examples of the Spear in different configurations.  I thought I had the topic covered.

By the time the Ohio Show rolled around, I’d found a couple of red examples, including the one featured in the "Russet" article here a week ago. A couple weeks after that, Don Lamkin sent me an email to see if I’d like to look at an Eagle "Trumpet" he’d found that was a little rough but still kind of neat. I’d seen a reference to the Trumpet somewhere in The American Stationer and was eager to see it, so Don sent it to me:

Yeah, it is a little dented up, but that’s ok with me – it was the first time I’d seen an all gold plated variation on the Spear, complete with the September 22, 1908 patent date:

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More than just "reddish brown"

Stephen Nagy is a character who, like me, lives around central Ohio. The only show he does that I know of is the Ohio Show, and he’s always got interesting stuff on his table. This year, he had this somewhat tired-looking box of goodies:

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