Yellow and More Yellow: Perfectly Sharpened Mixed Lot of Drawing Pencils in Compton Box child stretch of folding tabletop fencing

stretch of folding tabletop fencing

4" long x 2 1/2" tall x 7/8" wide

conflating Italia and Lady Liberty herself

with pretty inlay detail on the lid

8 3/4" long

Yellow and More Yellow: Perfectly Sharpened Mixed Lot of Drawing Pencils in Compton Box child stretch of folding tabletop fencingPerhaps there is nothing as beautiful as a yellow pencil with a very sharp point formally, and as potential embodied, too. And though much stained, what a perfect yellow box, too. I've found records for W. S. Greenough, Boston, dating to as early as the 1860s, but believe this box likely dates to the earlyish 20th c. The pencils are a mix of Compton's, Dixon, Mongol, Ward's Boston, and a few others, some with erasers, some without, all in that perfect