Brass Swiss Cheese Vintage Pen and Pencil Holder hide 3 1/2" across at handle

3 1/2" across at handle

1862—the second year of the Civil War—convened 16 people at his Dorchester home to unite themselves into what they called an “unsectarian Church of Jesus Christ”

dating to the late 19th/early 20th century

From 1965 until 1967 Hennix worked as a designer at Johansfors glass works

shows wear

Brass Swiss Cheese Vintage Pen and Pencil Holder hide 3 1/2" across at handleThis is the second of these great brass cheese wedge pen holders I've had in the shop how not to feel a little happier with this on the desk? 1970s or maybe very early 1980s, it's hollow on the interior so that the ends of whatever it's holding can slip down inside. This one's in pretty good shape compared to most I've seen (the fact that these are usually quite battered speaks for itself!), with relatively minor scratches, mostly on the top, a few