The Killer Mobile Device for Victorian Women
If These Shirts Could Talk: The Tantalizing Tales Behind Used Clothes
Gloriously Grotesque 19th-Century Pipes
In the Hot Seat: Is Your Antique Windsor a Fake?
Bizarro Beauty Products, from 1889 to Now
Love at First Kite: How Pizza and Pente Led to One Oklahoman's High-Flying Obsession
Pin-Up Queens: Three Female Artists Who Shaped the American Dream Girl
Say Ahhh: An Oral Surgeon's Quest to Reimagine the Garage-Band Guitar
Tokens for Sweethearts, in Times of War
American Picker Dream, Part I: Mike Wolfe On His Love Affair With Bikes
Posted 1 year ago
TRIKER
(12 items)
Need some help with this one. It is a mechanical pencil shaped like a pistol. The lead holder part is pulled back and locks in place inside the barrel until the trigger is pulled and then it snaps out for use. It looks like something is missing that was soldered to the cylinder beside the barrel. Possably an eraser or spare lead holder. It looks as if there was lettering stamped to the left grip but impossible to read what it was. Closest thing I could find was a "Dip Pen" that was similar in design
PencilsThe modern pencil was born in 16th-century England, where, in Cumbria, a ma…