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 |
Use and Reproduction | This image is in the public domain and may be used freely. If publishing in print, electronically, or on a website, please cite the item using the citation button. |
File Name | index.cpd |
Title | A. W. Faber's Slate Pencils price list |
Description | Price listings for A. W. Faber's Slate Pencils in wood, Slate Pencils not in wood. |
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Transcript | A. W. FABER'S MANUFACTORY ESTABLISHED 1761. A. W. FABER'S Slate Pencils, In Wood. Packed I gross in a package. I Slate Pencils, whitewood, yellow polished $0. polished silver, colored, 60-2. " " cedar, natural polished, soft 60-3. " " " " " hard, black polished, soft Artificially Prepared Slate Pencils :— Triangular, 6% inches long, in whitewood, not polished, . " " in whitewood, colored polished, silver, 6% in. loi " " in cedar, not polished, 6% " " " " colored polished, silver, &% " A. W. FABER'S Slate Pencils. Not in Wood. Made of an artificially prepared smooth composition which will not scratch the te, thus oiding also the "screech" so disagreeable in using the ordinary slate Artificially Prepared Slate Pencils, pointed, polished, $0.67 Artificially Prepared Slate Pencils:— ] Square, for card-tables, 4 inches long, not in wood, thick, . . " " " 4 " in paper, thick, . . . 4 " " thin, .... " " " 4 "in fancy paper, thick, 4 " " " thin, " Triangular, 6% inches long, not in wood, " " 6y " " polished in 3 colors, 6lX " in paper, " " (>% " in fancy paper A. W. FABER'S MANUFACTORY ESTABLISHED 1 |