Scarce c. 1860s E. Eberhard Faber Polygrade Drawing Pencils in Original Case with Snap Closure make do lid to those antlers just clearing

to those antlers just clearing the opening--I find this drawing really wonderful

but this large rectangular tray is I think my favorite-- the cleanest and most useful design of the lot

To make some mirth it seems is meant

presumably hidden in the wall then

Scarce c. 1860s E. Eberhard Faber Polygrade Drawing Pencils in Original Case with Snap Closure make do lid to those antlers just clearingI love pencils, and pencil boxes, but I am not a pencil connoisseur so I did not know, in finding this box (in southern Maine this week), how early (sometime between 1855 77) and how notable it is among pencil aficionados! Faber polygrade pencils, launched in 1837, were important in offering pencils according to a system of standard grades, and established the Faber name globally. They were also the first by Faber to use the Cont Hardmuth process of