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I'll tell him you said that (I thought the same thing lol)! ^^;\n\nCHW: https://www.deviantart.com/chwart\n\nAnyway, this is Sally Squirrel: The Super-saving Sweetheart of The Squirrels Club! (TSC)\n\nTSC was described as 'an international savings club for children' that some banks could choose to participate in.\nI dunno any details, but joining the club seemed to earn one a newsletter with comics, contests and so forth.\nTSC seems to've started sometime in the 1970s and dissolved in the late 1980s (so sad!).\n\nAs for banks that promoted TSC, I found several (though I'm sure there were many others). The bank that came up most in my research was Glendale Federal: a bank in California.\nAlso observed was Hancock Savings and Loan, First Community Bank, Mount Prospect Bank, and South State Bank (in case anyone cares).\n\nA collection of American TSC junk (all from eBay): https://sta.sh/0l5t2g7jwn0\n\nCloser look at Sally, Filbert and George (George is the one with the bow-tie): https://sta.sh/022pg9h7vfuz\n\nThe squirrels's final comic: https://sta.sh/02bnwgr3k05a\n\n...and, of course, the featured pencil. :p\n\nI don't have much to say about the pencil itself: I'm unsure who made it (my guess would be Dixon), and I'm unsure of its vintage (1980s?).\n\nThat said, it may've been better to feature this pencil with a comic (so the whole thing would be visible in the upload), but ACO is my mainstay (and as of writing, it's been nearly a month since my last ACO).\n\n...Anyways, I'll tell the extremely uninteresting story of how I came to acquire the pencil. ^^\n\nI was browsing eBay for newly-listed pencil lots (because that's how I spend my Friday nights).\nA listing came up titled, 'Vintage Lot of 100 Old Wooden Pencils ALL UNSHARPENED Advertising Midwest Kansas'\n\n$25 + shipping (roughly $36) ...fairly cheap for the amount of pencils, so I thought to check it out.\n\nAs I scanned though the lot, I saw several curiosities:\n\na couple of 'Brand X' specimens (obscure, they, but nothing worth featuring)\n...a Coke pencil from the 1960s (cool, but not too exciting)\n...a Pizza Hut pencil with their old chef character (nice, I guess)\n...a gold 'Met-O-Lite' from Empire (Empire's answer to Eberhard's 'Tinsel Tint' line ...kinda 'meh', but it's one I didn't have)\n...A blue 'Roy Rogers' from Eagle (now we're talking!)\n\n...AN EAGLE MIKADO IN A VARIATION I DIDN'T HAVE! :D\n\nWell, the Mikado was worth the $25 by itself ...but, honestly, I'd featured two Mikados already. :(\nThough the value was there, the lot just wasn't turning me on (I could live without it).\n\n...then I saw this: https://sta.sh/06br6v8bw4z\n\nWell, being the furry trash that I am, I pretty much knew that I would be buying the lot (the combination of the TSC and Mikado pencil won me over---neither pencil by itself would've sufficed). =^..^=","description_bbcode_parsed":"HYPOTHETICALWATCHER: "Chippy, CHWArt called---he wants his squirrel back"

Pfft! I'll tell him you said that (I thought the same thing lol)! ^^;

CHW: https://www.deviantart.com/chwart

Anyway, this is Sally Squirrel: The Super-saving Sweetheart of The Squirrels Club! (TSC)

TSC was described as 'an international savings club for children' that some banks could choose to participate in.
I dunno any details, but joining the club seemed to earn one a newsletter with comics, contests and so forth.
TSC seems to've started sometime in the 1970s and dissolved in the late 1980s (so sad!).

As for banks that promoted TSC, I found several (though I'm sure there were many others). The bank that came up most in my research was Glendale Federal: a bank in California.
Also observed was Hancock Savings and Loan, First Community Bank, Mount Prospect Bank, and South State Bank (in case anyone cares).

A collection of American TSC junk (all from eBay): https://sta.sh/0l5t2g7jwn0

Closer look at Sally, Filbert and George (George is the one with the bow-tie): https://sta.sh/022pg9h7vfuz

The squirrels's final comic: https://sta.sh/02bnwgr3k05a

...and, of course, the featured pencil. :p

I don't have much to say about the pencil itself: I'm unsure who made it (my guess would be Dixon), and I'm unsure of its vintage (1980s?).

That said, it may've been better to feature this pencil with a comic (so the whole thing would be visible in the upload), but ACO is my mainstay (and as of writing, it's been nearly a month since my last ACO).

...Anyways, I'll tell the extremely uninteresting story of how I came to acquire the pencil. ^^

I was browsing eBay for newly-listed pencil lots (because that's how I spend my Friday nights).
A listing came up titled, 'Vintage Lot of 100 Old Wooden Pencils ALL UNSHARPENED Advertising Midwest Kansas'

$25 + shipping (roughly $36) ...fairly cheap for the amount of pencils, so I thought to check it out.

As I scanned though the lot, I saw several curiosities:

a couple of 'Brand X' specimens (obscure, they, but nothing worth featuring)
...a Coke pencil from the 1960s (cool, but not too exciting)
...a Pizza Hut pencil with their old chef character (nice, I guess)
...a gold 'Met-O-Lite' from Empire (Empire's answer to Eberhard's 'Tinsel Tint' line ...kinda 'meh', but it's one I didn't have)
...A blue 'Roy Rogers' from Eagle (now we're talking!)

...AN EAGLE MIKADO IN A VARIATION I DIDN'T HAVE! :D

Well, the Mikado was worth the $25 by itself ...but, honestly, I'd featured two Mikados already. :(
Though the value was there, the lot just wasn't turning me on (I could live without it).

...then I saw this: https://sta.sh/06br6v8bw4z

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