[Height: 4 7/8″. Click for a larger view.]
Not a pencil cup, or even a tea tin. What it is is a four-hole holder for penholders, which themselves are the holders for penpoints. (Think dip pens.) A holder for penholders holding pencils: I like that. A holder for penholders holding Mongol pencils: I like that even more. Elaine gave me this penholder holder a few years ago. Thank you, Elaine.
The Mongol is my favorite pencil. Evidence: OCA Mongol posts (Pinboard).
[“What it is is”: I decided that for once in my life, I’d use what Garner’s Modern English Usage calls “this ungainly construction,” just for fun. No comma between the iss.]
Thursday, March 21, 2019
Mongols in a penholder holder
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That's really neat, thanks for sharing it with us.
ReplyDeleteMy pleasure. It’s such a plain beautiful thing.
ReplyDeleteA beautiful useful thing. Reminds me of a darning egg--so pleasing.
ReplyDeleteI see now that people still make darning eggs. I thought that they were only a thing of the past.
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