Layer Upon Layer of Wicked Cool

This one had me all stirred up the moment I saw it, for several reasons:

For starters, just look at this thing. The barrel is enameled metal and looks more like a cartridge from a machine gun than it does a pencil. Starting at the nose, the cone screws off to reveal something pretty close to an Autopoint or Dur-O-Lite . . .

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I'm Pretty Sure I Know What This Is . . .

When this turned up in a box of stuff on Frank Hoban's table, I just had to have it.  At the top are two rotating discs.  The black sleeve over the barrel is spring loaded and slides down the barrel . . .

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It's All Adding Up Now

At page 90 of The Catalogue, I've got an entry for the Houk Adding Pencil Co.  Here's the picture . . .

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