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| Title | A. W. Faber Price-list |
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| Publisher | A. W. Faber |
| Date | 1897 |
| Description | A 113-page catalog published in 1897 called “A. W. Faber’s Price-List of Superior Lead and Colored Pencils: Writing and Copying Inks, Slate Manufactures, Rulers, Pen-Holders, and Erasive Rubbers” by A.W. Faber based out of New York City, New York. The company is known today as Faber-Castell. Content includes a preface, testimonials, price lists, and an index of all utensils in the catalog. The products include polygrade and Siberian lead pencils, drawing pencils, low-priced lead pencils, colored pencils and chalks, pencils for artists, and school writing slates. |
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| Language | English |
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| Original Item Location | TS1268.A2 1897 |
| Original Item URL | http://library.uh.edu/record=b1831811~S11 |
| Digital Collection | Architecture Retail Catalog Collection |
| Digital Collection URL | http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/aapamphlets |
| Repository | Kenneth Franzheim II Rare Books Room, William R. Jenkins Architecture and Art Library, University of Houston Libraries |
| Repository URL | http://info.lib.uh.edu/about/campus-libraries-collections/william-r-jenkins-architecture-art-library |
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| File Name | index.cpd |
| Title | A. W. Faber's Forester Pencils With Metal Points price list |
| Description | Price listings for A. W. Faber's Forester Pencils With Metal Points, New Artists' Lead And Colored Pencils. |
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| Transcript | 34 A. W. FABER'S MANUFACTORY ESTABLISHED 1761. A. W. FABER'S Forester Pencils, With Metal Points. No. Packed % dozen in a box. Pe dozen 5729- Forester Pencils with metal points and movable leads, octagon, No. 25, with black chalks, black polished, gold stamp, 4 inches long, . . . $2.00 573°- Forester Pencils with metal points and movable leads, octagon, No. 25, with red leads, red polished, gold stamp, 4 inches long 2.00 5731- Forester Pencils with metal points and movable leads, octagon, No. 25, with blue leads, blue polished, gold stamp, 4 inches long 2.00 5732- Forester Pencils with metal points and movable leads, octagon, No. 25, with black leads, black polished, gold stamp, 4 inches long, .... 2.O0 5733- Forester Pencils with metal points and movable leads, octagon, No. 25, with green leads, green polished, gold stamp, 4 inches long 2.00 A. W. FABER'S New Artists' Lead and Colored Pencils, With Propelling and Repelling Leads. No. Packed ]i dozen in a box. Per dozen 5720. New Artists' Pencils with nickel-plated points, round, propelling and repelling leads, finest vermilion, No. 7, red polished, gold stamp, 4X inches long $2.40 5721- Same, with finest blue, No. 7, blue polished, gold stamp, 4% inches long, 2.40 5722. " " " black leads, No. 7, black polished, gold stamp, 2.40 2.50 5723- Same, with finest vermilion, No. 8, red polished, gold stamp, 5^ in. long, 5724* " blue, " 8, blue 5% " 2.50 5726- " " " black leads, " 8, black " " " $}( " " 2.50 5727- " double, with finest vermilion and blue, No. 9, polished in two colors, with ring in center, gold stamp, 7^ inches long 4.00 A. W. FABER'S MANUFACTORY ESTABLISHED 1761. |