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A Passionate Collector

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From: Antiques & Collecting Magazine
Date: 20080201
Author:Michelsen, Michael M Jr

Collector: Doug Martin

Passion: The Write Stuff

RALPH WALDO Emerson once noted that his friend Henry David Thoreau always had one object in his possession-a pencil. Thoreau, famous for books that included such classics as "Civil Disobedience" and "Walden," probably considered it a professional hazard.

Doug Martin, a design engineer at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio, might consider it the same-if it wasn't so much fun to collect pencils.

To many people raised on the computer, the pencil is a mundane object destined for extinction. But to aficionados like Martin, the ...

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