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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 New Lead Pencils With Metal Points price list |
| Description | Price listings for A. W. Faber's New Lead Pencils With Metal Points, New Copying Lead Pencils With Metal Points. |
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| Transcript | A. W. FABER'S MANUFACTORY ESTABLISHED 1761. A. W. FABER'S New Lead Pencils, With Metal Points, Propelling and Repelling Thin Leads of Thickness No. 200. No. Packed a dozen in a box. Per doz 5772. Lead Pencils with metal points, propelling and repelling, hexagon, dark red polished, gold, 6% inches long, with fine artists' leads, thickness No. 200, 2 inches long $2.< 5773. Same as above, \% inches long, with fine artists' leads, thickness No. 200, 2 inches long, 2.< 5913. Boxes of 6 fine artists' black leads, thickness No. 200, 2 inches long, A. W. FABER'S New Copying Lead Pencils, With Metal Points, Propelling and Repelling Copying Leads. 5840. Lead pencils with metal points, propelling and repelling fine copying leads 2 inches long, hexagon, black polished, gold, 6% inches long, $2.10 5866. Lead pencils with metal points, propelling and repelling fine copying leads 2 inches long, hexagon, black polished, gold, 4% inches long, 2.10 Per doz. boxes 5S70. Boxes of 6 fine copying leads 2 inches long, $2.70 5855 Lead Pencils with metal points, propelling and repelling fine copying leads 2 inches long, thickness No. 200, hexagon, black polished gold, 6% inches long, J2.00 5856 Same as above, 4% inches long, 2.00 Per doz. boxes 5882 Boxes of 6 fine copying leads 2 inches long, thickness No. 200, .... $1.25 . W. FABER'S MANUFACTORY ESTABLISHED 1761. |