The red pencil (painted over brass) came from Frank Hoban, whose table was just a few doors down from mine at the show. The moment I saw it, I knew I had to buy it – I was expecting a second one to arrive within just a couple hours, and I wanted to photograph the two together. Later that day, Sue Hershey arrived at my table, and sure enough she had the green one in tow. Sue had sent me a picture of it some months earlier, and she said she was bringing along a bag of goodies to the DC show for me to look at. I had hoped (a) this would be one of them and (b) I’d get to bring it home with me. Yes to both!
Neither of these is a particularly expensive pencil, but what had me fired up about Sue’s pencil – and had my radar in tune by the time I found the one on Frank’s table – was the name on the clips:
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