It bugs me when there are unsightly gaps, whether they be in my memory of a series, or the series itself. Today’s story involves both.
Since I was writing about early Eagle pencils yesterday, I had cause to go back and have another look at this picture, from “Eagle’s Banner Year of 1909" back on February 16, 2012 (http://leadheadpencils.blogspot.com/2012/02/eagle-week-part-4-eagles-banner-year-of.html):
With the No. 829 “Little Torpedo,” the No. 830 “Torpedo” and the No. 833 “Borneo,” I wondered out loud, where are numbers 831 and 832?
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