The Leadhead's Pencil Blog

This is the last installment in a three-part series about John Foley, the New York "gold pen man." The first installment is posted...

Note: this is the second installment in a three-part series. Part one, introducing a couple of recent finds bearing the name "John Fole...

As Volume 5 was winding down in 2018, I squeezed in a short piece about an interesting pencil marked John Foley, marked “Pat. App. For” and ...

This article has been edited and included in The Leadhead's Pencil Blog Volume 5; copies are available print on demand through Amazon  h...