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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Nathan Lindop, post: 648809, member: 5285&quot;]Those brewery advertising ones seem considerablely later to me. </p><p><br /></p><p>I havent picked it up for the auction house yet but I think maybe this one is static and doesn&#039;t have a mechanism to advance.</p><p><br /></p><p>They&#039;re quite common here, not sure when modern propelling ballpoint pens were invented but at this point there are some pieces which are propelling pencils as well as dip pens.</p><p><br /></p><p>Vaguely I&#039;ve seen two period styles of them, the older ones, like pre 1900 are often Architectural (corinthian columns and such) and cam have Intaglios on a fitted stone but the later ones are much more art deco 30&#039;s and much simpler. They are often silver but are gold too with a heftier price tag.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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