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This article has been edited and included in The Leadhead's Pencil Blog Volume 6, now on sale at The Legendary Lead Company.  I have jus...

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

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

Like a lot of these advertising pencil companies, Gerlach-Barklow specialized in making calendars. According to Joliet’s Gerlach-Barklow Ca...

One of the more unusual pencils found in the salesman’s sample wallet of Vernon pencils I received from Michael Little is the one on the far...

You can’t please everyone. I still remember the irate email I received shortly after The Catalogue was first published, in which one of th...

After World War II, the mechanical industry underwent a transition. Before the war, there wasn’t much of a distinction between companies ma...

I’ve talked a bit before about the Springfield Antique Show in western Ohio, just off Interstate 70. Janet and I don’t get over there quite ...

This example was in with that bunch of pencils I recently bought from my friend Michael McNeil at Northwest Pen Works.  It is a Ritepoint, a...