Sampson Mordan and Company created many figural pencils during the life of the company. Here I'm showing a magic pencil being represented as a British shilling coin. The coin is real. It was sliced in half horizontally to add another layer of thickness. This allowed room to install a magic pencil mechanism. Yeap, magic pencil is a term used by those serious people. One pulls out the rear extension via the ring and simultaneously the working end is pushed out the other end. Magic! Lets call the time of production on this one the date of the coin - 1887. The pencil is 7/8 of an inch across and 1/4 inch deep.