A collection of extending pencils and pencil holders,prising: a gold mounted extending pencil with foiled citrine top, 7.2cm long; silver examples including a silver pencil holder, by Sampson Mordan & Co., marks rubbed, stamped S. MORDAN & CO., 8.9cm high total; a silver engine turned pencil, Chester, 1926, Villiers & Jackson, 11.5cm long; two other silver pencil holders; a white metal pencil holder with chinoiserie decoration of a dragon to stem terminating in a figure, 15.5cm long; a pencil with foliate decoration, stamped Sterling; together with a cased rolled gold Yard-O-Led example; two silver plated Wahl Eversharp pencils, one missing top; two other plated pencils, one missing top; a faux tortoiseshell example, and a brass example (14)