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Wallace Motif: A Fine Pencil

Description
One boxed set of pencils entitled Wallace Motif: A Fine Pencil, manufactured by the Wallace Pencil Co., Saint Louis, U.S.A., ca. 1920. The container is made of tin, and is illustrated with an image of a pencil; the tin is colored in yellow and green. The advertisement printed on the bottom of the tin reads: "Wallace Motif in the following five degrees 1-2-2 2/4-3-4. The Wallace Motif is the finest pencil for general use that can be bought. Like all pencils in the Wallace line, it is made exclusively in the big modern factory that has become famous for quality manufacture." The tin contains 6 pencils, all from companies other than Wallace Pencil Co.
Type
Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date
circa 1920
Call number
ephKAEE
Creator
Korzenik, Diana (1941-)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance
Gift of Diana Korzenik, August 1997.
transferred from Huntington Art Reference Library, May 2000.
purchased from Mike Kaplan, October 2000.
Associated people
Korzenik, Diana, (1941-)
Abbott, Jacob, (1803-1879,)
Abbott, John S. C. (1805-1877,)
Bartholomew, William N. (1822-1898,)
Coe, Benjamin H. (1799-1883,)
Coe, E. M. (1862-1944,)
Cross, Anson K. (1818-1894,)
Hodgman, Carolyn S., (1803?-1887,)
Knudsen, Carl Wilhelm, (1882-1942,)
Morgan, Lucius B., (1807-)
Nutting, B. F. (1887-1969,)
Sarg, Tony, (1836-1886,)
Schuster, Sigismond,
Shaw, Ruth Faison,
Smith, Walter,
Spofford, Mabel,
Spofford, Mabel,
Wright, Wynna,
Associated organizations
Faber-Castell (Firm)
American Crayon Company.
Binney & Smith Co.
D. Appleton and Company.
D. Lothrop & Company.
F.W. Devoe & C.T. Raynolds Company.
Eberhard Faber Pencil Company.
Ginn and Company.
Grout & Putnam.
Ivison & Phinney.
J.L. Hammett Co.
J.W. Schermerhorn & Co.
Joseph Dixon Crucible Company.
L. Prang & Co.
Little, Brown and Company.
McLoughlin Bros.
Milton Bradley & Co.
P.P. Caproni & Brother.
Prang Company.
Raphael Tuck & Sons.
Saalfield Pub. Co.
Transogram Company.
Wadsworth, Howland & Co.
Weber Costello Company.
Winsor & Newton.
Koh-i-noor Hardtmuth AG.
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