Get OUT! Not only do we have The Writer and The Punctuator, we also have The Grammarian? I had no idea! This one is the same size with a copyright date of 1980. It's in good enough shape -- a few smudges and wrinkles (like me).

This one doesn't have nutty sentences like The Punctuator does. "The strangest animal is the baboon." "The manager is more efficient." The sample sentences given under Linking Verbs/Adjectives are a bit strange, though:

He smells terrible. (He has an odor; nothing is wrong with his sense of smell.)
He feels bad. (He is troubled; only a Braille student could feel badly.)

Odd.

Well, what do you know? We DO have The Punctuator! This one indicates it was revised in 1977. It doesn't mention the other two wheels in the series, so maybe this is the first one. Its 8.375 inches square, just like The Writer, and is in pretty good shape.

I like some of the sentence examples:

Frankly, my uncle is a perfectly normal fat-head, a "square".
When you are prepared to apologize, I shall listen to you.
The tenor saxophone sobbed on; and the dancers, hypnotized, stared at each other with glazed eyes.
Billy's hair was dripping; he'd been swimming in the drainage ditch again.
Matilda ran out into the dark, waving her hands and shouting.

The Punctuator was written by Horace Critchlow in 1961. He must certainly have been a punctuation pedant with a name like that. But you have to hand it to him: he could write a good sentence.

This wheel is a writer's guide to grammar, punctuation, and sentence structure. You can at least finally learn the names of sentence structures you already know how to make.

This wheel is 8.375 inches square and in reasonalbly good shape. The copyright is 1978 but it was revised in 1981. You can also get The Punctuator and The Speller, two wheels that would have been a benefit to a former co-worker of mine. I would have helped her learn when not to place a question mark at the end of a sentence.

This wheel would have come in very handy when I was trying to learn Swedish. I bought this in Stockholm, so it's brand new. It's 8 inches in diameter. "Starka Verb" means, I believe, strong verb. I don't know what most of these mean, but I know how to pronounce most of them. I'm afraid that won't get me very far. Good thing most people in Sweden speak Engelska.

Here's a little something surely designed to fit into a smart businessman's coat pocket: a currency converter. It references the change in British currency that occurred in 1971. Currency rates being what they are, I wonder how up-to-date this could have been much after it was printed? Maybe if you've had enough "Black & White" Scotch, it doesn't really matter.