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This shabby vintage catalogue page features a wonderful variety of 17 pens, pencils and paper cutters. The page is from the H. O’Neill & Co. 1897-8 Fall & Winter Fashion Catalogue. Here is a cleaned up black and white version of the instruments from the page. Click on images to enlarge. Related posts that may interest you:...Read More

From left to right: 1) Called "Daddy Long Lead" for obvious reasons 2) The word "afro" was somewhere in the name of this one. 3) This pencil is unique because the eraser is in the shape of a triangle (hard to see in this photo, I know) 4) I think this one is significant because the wood looks shriveled like an old man's skin. Or maybe it used to have a longer piece of lead before it broke off?

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Old shot, freshly processed ... I dug this one up because I'm putting together a little set of stationery-themed postcards. x

This is a brass early pencil sharpener. This sharpener shaves the wood and points the lead in two separate operations. The longer blade