Clever Design (and fun to use!), c. 1940s Umbrella Cased Bridge Pencil mid-century asian but overall good structural condition

but overall good structural condition

but they are pretty subtle

documenting two different varieties of violets and their leaves

some houses and animals and flowers and all sorts of things

(now very soft old fold-lines suggest it was carried around in a pocket or tucked into a book or letter long ago) so the tear doesn't bother me a bit

Clever Design (and fun to use!), c. 1940s Umbrella Cased Bridge Pencil mid-century asian but overall good structural conditionSo fun. This I believe was made as a tally pencil for bridge and just as bridge partners are known to send secret signals back and forth, so it seems just right that a secret pencil should be used to keep score! The pencil pulls out from the end, pencil point to the inside, and then a longer brass sleeve that it fits into, like a handle, making it much easier to write with! With gold tassels still hanging from its neck, and a smart pink celluloid