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The last of the Tri-points to come out of Edgar Nichols' estate was this example.  In a lot of ways, this looks like the Tri-point pic...

I have had to tell myself this more times than I can count.   I'll see something interesting, but the price is more than I want to pay (...

The next group of Tri-points in the collection are along the lines that are pictured in The Catalogue , and what you would "normally...

Yesterday, I was trying to pinpoint when the ball-clip Tri-points might have been made.  There was one more example of these in the bunch wh...

This next group of Nichols Tri-Points look more like the ones I've been familiar with. Note that the buttons are larger and have more ...

The next group of Nichols Tri-points that came from the estate of Edgar B. Nichols is this set.  In the evolutionary timeline of these pen...

In The Catalogue , you won't find any listing under Nichols Products Company.  There's only a short article indexed under "Tri-...

Lately, I've been having a lot of fun exploring pencils made by the Nichols Products Corporation, and all of the neat patents that were ...

From the fuzzy picture on ebay, this looked like a perfect match for the pearl Nichols "monopoint" I blogged about a few weeks ago...

After I found the Nichols "Monopoints" at the Scott Antique Market, I started keeping an eye out for other Nichols pencils.  This ...

Back we go to the Scott Antique Market, on my same swing through the larger of the two buildings that netted me that Presto box I talked abo...