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A.W. Faber's Polygrade Lead Pencils

Description
One pencil box for A.W. Faber's Polygrade Lead Pencils, ca. 1850. The box contains 5 slots for 5 different grades of pencils; the slots are labeled, and there is a hardness guide printed on a paper label affixed to the underside of the lid. The guide is printed in both French and English. The entire contents of the lid read: "Prize-Medals, London 1851 New York 1853 paris 1855 etc., A.W. Faber's Polygrade-Lead-Pencils Manufacion y established 1761." The label is decorated and embossed, in gold, into the lid. The box is empty.
Type
Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date
circa 1850
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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