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On today's date, in 1858, Hymen Lipman received a patent for the pencil. Lipmen was granted the patent for attaching a rubber eraser at one end. The patent was later revoked however, when the Supreme Court ruled in 1875 that a pencil with an eraser is not a groundbreaking invention. Evidently the Supremes never made any mistakes. So it goes.
No word on when the pencil box was invented.
:: Various drawing pencil boxes from the Letterology Archives.
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