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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 | Alphabetical index |
| Description | Alphabetical Index listings from Blotters to Inks. |
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| File Name | aapam_201101_001dx.jpg |
| Transcript | ALPHABETICAL INDEX. Blotters Calculating Rules, Caution, Chalks. Black Chalks, Movable Points, . . . Colored Drawing Chalks, Improved Drawing Chalks, in wood o Red Chalks, " " Carpenters,' Tailors' Chalks, Colored Pencils, Leads Movable. Artists', Nos. 7 to 9, Colored Pencils, Leads Not Movable. Colored Writing Dermatographic, Extra Fine, Double Ended Extra Large Fine, " Double Ended For Glass, Lumbermen's, with Point Protector, New Red, Blue, Green Office Colored Pencils Second Quality, Warehousemen's, Wax Crayons Crayons. Lithographic, Soft Crayons (Sauce) Drawing Pins, Grades, Explanation of Autographic Ink, Colored " ... .... Copying " Double Copying Indelible Ink, . W. FABER'S MANUFACTORY ESTABLISHED 1761. |