Eberhard Faber Pencils
How They Are Made

EBERHARD FABER : new York The Eberhard Faber Exhibit As an expression of the highest development of the lead pencil, penholder, rubber band and rubber eraser indus- tries, the Eberhard Faber exhibit in the Varied Indus- tries Building of the Panama-Pacific Exposition, leaves nothing to be desired. Here is shown a complete line of these goods in all its diversity of styles and with the various classes repre- sented in detail. The exhibit is comprised only of such patterns as are regularly carried in stock. In order that the public may understand something of the processes of manufacture, specimens of crude material, including a section of a Southern red cedar tree, a large biscuit of Para rubber just as received from the rubber forests of Brazil, and lumps of graphite and clay as mined, are displayed. Graphic charts show each of the materials in different stages of manufacture, so that the observer may trace the goods from the crude material through to the finished product. These charts are self-explanatory, as the mounted specimens detail each step of manufacture. In the central cabinet of the exhibit will be found not only single samples of the goods, but also many of the containers of different types in which the goods are offered to the trade. Rubber bands, from the tiny ticket rings three-eighths of an inch in diameter, to the mammoth package bands measuring nine inches long and five-eighths of an inch wide, in both the regular grey and the red or ruby rubber, are on view. THE OLDEST PENCIL FACTORY IN AMERICA