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Posted 2 years ago
RMZ
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I found these in a cigar box in a shed and thought they were kind of neat. The pink one is a plastic mechanical pencil that screws open to reveal an eraser. It has a hook to hang from a chain.
The brass one is a cartridge that I would guess was designed to hold a pencil with an eraser at one end. It is some type of marketing trinket. The last part says "Safe, Courteous, and Progressive."
I am sure the pink one is just a novelty, but I have only found one so far and it was on turned into a piece of jewelery. Any information on these would be appreciated, especially the pencil.
PencilsThe modern pencil was born in 16th-century England, where, in Cumbria, a ma…