And Now A Word From Your Local Moose Lodge

Back when I was discussing the Dur-O-Lite Ejector Pencils on September 29, 2012, the example I was showing off had "Loyal Order of the Moose" imprinted on the barrel:

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Now Was That So Hard?

I’m a little obsessed with patents. Whenever I run across a pencil marked only with a patent date or patent number, I get that tingly, goosebumpy feeling and I can’t wait to look it up.

So when this one turned up in an online auction, I had to get it:

This tiny pencil is only marked around the nose:

"Pat. Jul 11 99."

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Blown All Out of Proportion

Matt McColm directed my attention to this one, and I snatched it up immediately:

It looks pretty ordinary, unless you notice that the clip just looks a little bit out of whack for an Eversharp, like something’s out of proportion here:

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. . . And The Ones I Left Behind

I didn’t buy everything I liked at Andy Beliveau’s table in Philly that I wanted to, for two reasons. First, I couldn’t afford to. Second, some of them weren’t for sale. This one fit into both categories:

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The Ones I Picked Up . . .

As I mentioned a few days ago, the Philadelphia Show was the event at which I finally had an hour or two to really study the things on Andy Beliveau’s table. And I didn’t just study and chat, either – I actually brought home a few Victorian "magic" pencils from Andy’s table. Here’s the ones I brought home from Philly, five of which came from Andy. As for the sixth, I don’t remember which one that was or where I got it:

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My "Monster Tuckie"

I thought about running this one yesterday, and then I thought – since I’m not entirely convinced this is a hack job – that running it almost on April Fool’s day might be perfect.

Here’s the pencil:

It’s sort of a Sheaffer Tuckaway - or rather, like a TUCKaway. Here’s the behemoth next to a normal-sized Tuckaway that Joe Nemecek brought for me to the Philly Show:

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In Celebration of the Day

Here’s a Sheaffer that turned up in an online auction. I remember that I didn’t pay to much for it, because I wasn’t too sure about it:

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