Vintage Find: Eagle "Chemi-Sealed" Mirado 174 No. 2.5 and No. 3 pencils spotlight

The last lot of vintage pencil tins also included these two red cardboard boxes with Eagle Mirado 174 pencils.
The No. 2-1/2 pencils were the True Medium or the third hardest in their 6 degrees range. The Art Deco Eagle logo is pretty sleek and reminded me of the Starship Trooper Flag used by the Mobile Infantry.
The No. 3 pencils were Medium Hard or the second hardest in their 6 degrees range.
Both pencils sharpened and worked well enough. Though the pencil tips were a tad weaker than their German counterparts and crumbled a bit under pressure.
Erasers do not generally maintain their functionality after decades of drying in storage, but the eraser in the No. 3 pencils still worked reasonably well.
Sample doodle on Flexi-Sketch book. These vintage pencils were a nice welcomed addition to the collection as examples of American made pencils from factories that vanished in the later part of the XX century. Though I get the sense that they were really the equivalent of the modern yellow No. 2 general use pencil meant for writing, so I probably would not have gone hunting for them specifically.