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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 continued |
| Description | Alphabetical Index listings from Rulers to Writing Tablets . |
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| File Name | aapam_201101_001eb.jpg |
| Transcript | ALPHABETICAL INDEX. Rulers. Pages Assorted Rulers on Cards, 53 Ebony Rulers (French), 53 Flat " 51,52 Hexagon " 51 Square " 50 Scales. Architects' 53 Engineers', 53 Triangular, 52 Slate Pencils. In Wood, 42 Not in Wood, 42 Slates. Double 46, 47 " Oblong 46 School, 47 Memorandum Books 47 Parchment, 48 " Memorandum Books, 48 School, 46 Unbreakable 48 Slide Rules (or Calculating Rules) 54 Steel Pens, 61 Stumps for Draughtsmen, 64 Testimonials, 7> 8, 9 Thumb Tacks, 44 Thumb-Tack Tools 44 Trade-marks, 3, 10 Triangles, 55, 56 T Squares, 57 Water Colors. Dry 62 Moist 62 Wax Crayons, 26, 27 Writing Tablets. Porcelain, 49 Silicate, 49 . W. FABER'S MANUFACTORY ESTABLISHED 1761. |