These certainly earned their name, 'Vanity'. They have all the air of a pencil that you put in an equally fancy cup alongside an expensive paperweight and an ivory and silver fountain pen holder by your desk, all to show people you have them and impress your purchasing power and refined aesthetic taste. Bet it was quite a success with attormeys, notaries and bankers back in their day... not so much with engineers or other hard-working professions that value raw utility.

@ma-mo

4 ай бұрын

You've said it exactly right.

interesting ends on those pencils .. and the wood grain is very nice. Again you make a pencil video worth watching ...and the ends protect the eraser I guess.

Very neat find. I did enjoy the tease for future pencil reviews as well!

@ma-mo

4 ай бұрын

Eventually!

Gorgeous pencils, MAMO! Those are "Park Avenue" pencils - higher end and beautifully done. They did not sell these at Woolworth's! These really were pencils for folks with disposable income. When most pencils sold for a couple of pennies, these were meant as status symbols. Even the name is perfect for a beautiful pencil like this. Those caps are great. I suppose if you could afford pencils like this, you weren't the type to make a mistake, so who needs an ugly eraser when you can have that lovely flourish on the top? Thanks for sharing these!

@ma-mo

4 ай бұрын

And those pencil tops are exactly as useful as a five-year-old eraser! Thanks, Kevin.

These Eagle pencils are works of art. I feel like I just visited an art museum in this presentation. 🙂 When you mentioned "to be used-up" and either "impressive or foolhardy." I thought of the story where the barrel of meal wasted not and the cruse of oil did not fail. (1Kings17:16) I am a aware of a pencil that is used nearly every work-day for recording a few numerical details on the calendar; this pencil hasn't been sharpened for years, and amazingly seems to show no wear for the use. Great Video!

@ma-mo

4 ай бұрын

I like that miracle pencil already.

Maybe the cap is transferable. You get a pack of pencils, but only one cap. So when use a pencil up, then you put the cap on the next pencil?

@ma-mo

4 ай бұрын

Perhaps. My guess is it just wiggled free over the decades. I figure erasers on pencil end up hard and useless after a few years, so why not just put something that looks cool on there instead?

@joest.eggbenedictus1896

4 ай бұрын

@@ma-mo it makes it seem like, the only person who would use a pencil like that would have to have the last name Howard and the first name Lovey...

@ma-mo

4 ай бұрын

@@joest.eggbenedictus1896 Well, I mean, I know a poor, middle-aged Appalachian-American pencil pusher who uses one. Other than that, I agree.

Looks like some one wound up their used gum on the end. That's beautifully ugly

@DinnerForkTongue

4 ай бұрын

I believe that is what children nowadays call "blursed".

@ma-mo

4 ай бұрын

Don't be cruel; I think it's snazzy.