Metal ink erasers were generally used before chemically imbibed ink erasers were introduced and when most writing was done in ink and not in pencil (or by computer). However, the erasers were essentially small knives, and by accident or on purpose could end up as unlikely weapons in a stabbing. In one instance in 15-year-old boy working in an insurance office in New York City, died when, while evading women stenographers trying to give him a kiss on his birthday, he fell and his ink eraser, one supplied to office employers, stabbed his chest.[1] In another instance, stemming from a bar fight, a man stabbed another with an ink eraser.[2]