Near Full Half Gross Box of Reliance Ravenwood Hexagon 1080 Medium No 2 Pencils forked surface Very early 20th century

Very early 20th century

with a Helen Henkel having put her own stamp on it through watercoloring a dozen or so of its many plates

Maine last weekend--pulled out just as I was leaving

Relatively newly backed with brown paper and wired for hanging

The style and the amount of gilding lost make me think it is pretty old

Near Full Half Gross Box of Reliance Ravenwood Hexagon 1080 Medium No 2 Pencils forked surface Very early 20th centuryFew things feel as purely good to me as a big box of unsharpened yellow pencils. Pure potential, and just beautiful things. I really love the c. 1950s graphics on the box holding this near half gross of (mostly) Reliance Pen and Pencil Co. Ravenwood 1080 No. 2 Hexagon pencils, too. The few odd ones mixed in (pictured) are a few Wallace "Swift" No 2 pencils, one Hammett's Kendall, and one Venus Forum No. 3. Some of the Ravenswoods are still held, by