Vintage Carpenters Pencil Collection #2 bible They have definitely been used

They have definitely been used with embedded soiling--especially evident on the backs-- but I personally love them all the more for it

with the snake painted in black against gold and red

which are often described as Shaker

and flips over to start with math from other

but will balance if leaned

Vintage Carpenters Pencil Collection #2 bible They have definitely been usedAnother beautiful set of construction pencils, this week in New Hampshireclearly pro actively collected by someone over a good number of years, Id guess who lived somewhere between Boston and Haverhill, MA. I love looking at these just laid flat on a surface arranged in color blocks, but theyd be equally pretty thrown in glass or tin and placed at the ready to useand the size, flatness of weight of these makes them so satisfying to use, for all sorts