Girls Just Want To Have Fun

I got a hot tip from a buddy, it must have been two years ago now, that there was a pencil in an online auction that was really rare, wasn’t properly described and might well go for a song. I remember that I paid more than a couple songs – more like half an album – but it was still a lot less than I expected:

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Get Your Minds Out of the Gutter

Here’s one that Joe Nemecek brought with him to the Baltimore Show when it was last held at the Tremont Hotel downtown:

You can barely make out the word "Eversharp" on the cheaply plated clip . . .

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This One Finally Pulled My Chain

Rob Bader had this pencil in his online store for a long time:

It was one of those I’d stopped and looked at probably a dozen times. There wasn’t much special about the pencil itself; allthough the barrel is sterling, it had a name on it I hadn’t seen before:

"A&Z."

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Curious Enough

I saw my friend Keith Prosser at the DC show last August. Keith still hasn’t forgiven me for talking him out of a nice Shur-Rite pencil at the Chicago Show last year (I wrote about that one at http://leadheadpencils.blogspot.com/2013/07/these-shur-were-best-they-made.html), and now I know he won’t forgive me about this one, either:

Keith was excited to show this one to me because he’d never seen a Waterman pencil like this one, and neither had I:

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The Patent Book Passes a Harsh Test

My friend in California, who parted with the grey Parker Zaner-Bloser from yesterday’s article, had a few other things that he was interested in selling. Here’s one of them:

Great minds run in the same very small circles – I had bid on this item in an online auction probably five years earlier, not knowing anything about "Seth Crocker" but just because I liked the name . . .

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Worth the Wait

A couple of years ago, a collector posted a picture of his finds on one of the online discussion forums. One of the pencils jumped right off the screen at me, grabbed me by the throat, and insisted that I type a backchannel message just to say "If you ever decide to let that one go . . ."

As I expected, he knew as well as I did what a special piece that was. He thanked me for the compliment and said he’d keep me in mind if he ever decided to sell it. Months went by . . . then a couple years . . . and finally last spring he proved true to his word, sending me an email to indicate he had enjoyed owning it long enough, so this one made its way back home:

That Coke-bottle lower barrel is a dead giveaway, and even though the clip says simply "Parker," I knew with confidence that home for this one was right here in central Ohio . . .

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Someone Has Just Got to Know What This Is

These two, just like the unmarked Redipoint lighter pencil I wrote about here yesterday, defy my usual rule against adding unmarked pencils to my collection:

The reason I’ve kept them is because the way they work is just so incredibly . . . cool.

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