Eberhard Faber Pencils
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EBERHARD FABER : NEW YORK Lead pencils, our chief product, occupy more space, and are more prominently displayed than our other goods. The “Van Dyke” Drawing Pencil (made with lead in 15 degrees of hardness) and the “Mongol” No. 482, the most popular high grade commercial pencil of the day, lead off in this line. These are followed by a host of others with and without metal tips and rubbers, in round and hexagon shapes, and in a numberless variety of colors. Such brands as the “Hexaround,” “Royal,” “Empress,” “Rembrandt,” “Gloria,” “Ray,” “Columbia,” “Dot,” “Commerce,” etc., will be readily recognized as old acquaintances. School pencils are shown in many patterns with lead of different calibres, and with the pencil shaft in some cases very large, to suit the Kindergarten classes. Stenographers’ and copying pencils, colored pencils with lead in as many as fifteen colors, carpenters’ and glass-marking pencils, weatherproof, election, program, slate, pocket and the new magazine, are all displayed in profusion. Pencil point protectors, combination pen and pencil cases, lumber crayons, etc., are all incorpor- ated in the pencil section. Penholders run the gamut from the cheaper grades with metal tips, on through the all-wood styles with their silk-like finish in different colors, to those with tips of hard rubber, cork, soft rubber, etc., in all of the shapes, sizes and styles with which the public is so familiar. There will be found on exhibition several very fine pencil drawings by Carl Hassmann, which were done exclusively with the “Mongol,” and which show the great possibilities in the lead quality of this pencil. It might be mentioned that the handsome ivory and gold cabinet in which the main display is exhibited, was designed by the late John M. Carrére, the well known THE OLDEST PENCIL FACTORY IN AMERICA