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Machine Lending Library Collections
Personalized Pencil Vending Machine
Vendex, Patented August 4, 1925 by Vendex, Inc. New York City
A Vendex is a very special, 5-cent coin operated vending machine that dispenses personalized pencils. Set the levers to spell out your name and the pencil is embossed just for you.

Vendex printed pencils

Vendex, 1925

Coin operation

Promotion

Print wheel

Interior mechanism

Personalization wheel

Operating instructions

Branding
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