Yellow and More Yellow: Perfectly Sharpened Mixed Lot of Drawing Pencils in Compton Box giant carved head with some scuffs and scratches

with some scuffs and scratches and paint loss here and there

it really doesn't bother me a bit

5 3/8 l x 2" t x 1 13/16" w

and hand-painted brick pattern around the base and for the two chimneys

It spans a number of years in the 1830s

Yellow and More Yellow: Perfectly Sharpened Mixed Lot of Drawing Pencils in Compton Box giant carved head with some scuffs and scratchesPerhaps 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