Anyone who collects has had the experience…a few pieces come together and interest is piqued. Slowly the group expands as more examples fall into place and in the process knowledge builds about the subject. Over time, with luck, curiosity and perseverance a collection develops along with an understanding of the time, the maker, the materials, the process and perhaps most maddening, what is missing and needed to make the collection more representative of the whole.  In his family history William John Tully, Jr. great grand son of Joseph Patrick Tully, the man who established Eclipse’s Canadian operations in 1925, provides an overview of the pens made in Canada by Eclipse, and mentions…  “Joe went on to develop pens for ‘tiny hands’. There were two pens that we know of, one was called the ‘MaryJane’ and the other the ‘Margie’. (MaryJane and Margie were Joe Tully’s daughters. ED.) These were pens for children and small women who could not grasp the standard pens that were really built for a man’s hand. Joe Lee has one of two Mary Jane pens that I am aware exist and I do not know for certain of any example of the ‘Margie’ pen.” (Joe Lee is the son of the Margie for whom one of the pens were named. ED)  In an article about Eclipse models posted a few months ago, Eclipse Models I chose not mention MaryJane or Margie pens. Based on William Tully’s comments, I assumed that they were made in such limited quantity, perhaps as novelties for family and friends, that they were not put into general production; they would be a permanent blank in the collection.  That was a bad assumption.  Introducing Mary Jane.    Small items, indeed.    The pen and pencil are both about 9 cm., 3.5 inches. From the material and the clip they appear to be made in the mid to late Thirties, and clearly not a novelty for friends and family. Both pen and pencil are painted as souvenirs, the pen from Kamloops, BC, and the pencil from Nanaimo, BC.     The drive from Kamloops to Nanaimo on Vancouver Island is about 280 miles. How this set came together defies my guess. And these were not trinkets tossed into a drawer with post cards, ash trays, and sea shells from other summer travels. The eraser on the pencil is well worn, as is the plating on the nib. Cleaning the cap released a good deal of old, dried ink. These little items were put to work.  The set languished, sitting dormant for seven days on eBay, with a discouraging opening bid of $50. Viewers of the lot must have considered them over-priced. Based on their size, material, condition, the maker and the tacky “souvenir” paint, they were right. Within the closing seconds one other bidder pushed the close to a multiple of more than four times the opening bid. The bidder was identified as, “private listing - bidders' identities protected”. Whoever you are, I would very much like to see your collection.  Now that both he and I know that there really is an Eclipse Mary Jane, I hope our paths don’t cross when a Margie appears since it now seems that the Margie blank could just be filled, and I might not be as lucky.