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Autopoint Mechanical Pencil Brochure (1936), Autopoint Company, Chicago, Illinois, Robert Bolin , Depositor

Autopoint Pencils Trade Catalogs

This is a single page tri-fold, color brochure with an accompanying sales letter.

The brochure shows major Autopoint products -- a mechanical pencil the size of conventional pencils and an extra large mechanical pencil about twice as large as conventional pencils. Interestingly the brochure shows a picture of a pencil with a Bakelite tip like the modern Autopoint pencils, but with a metal cap over the eraser like Autopoint pencils from the 1920s. The brochure stresses that the price per item drops sharply for large orders. It shows pictures of four variations of pencils and gives prices for five variations. …