Eberhard Faber Pencils
How They Are Made

Historical I/berhard Faber, the father of the present firm members, Eberhard and Lothar W. Faber, was born in Germany in 1822. After completing a law course at the University of Erlangen, Bavaria, he entered the pencil business, and in 1849 came to New York where he established the house of Eberhard Faber, with store and offices at 133 William Street. For many years he was the largest exporter of cedar wood, supplying from large timber tracts which he controlled in Florida, most of the European pencil manufacturers. He died in New York, March 2, 1879. In 1861 a factory was erected on 42nd Street at the East River. This was destroyed by fire in 1872, when the plant was transferred to the present location in Brooklyn, where it has since continuously operated. An extensive group of buildings, twenty-seven in all, covering a good part of two city blocks, has sprung up about the original quarters, until the old factory home is scarcely to be recognized. Rubber Bands and Erasers, which are an important feature of the Eberhard Faber line, have been manu- factured since 1858 at our factory in Newark, N. J. From the first these goods assumed a supremacy which has always been maintained and their recogni- tion as standard is universal.