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

Very early 20th century

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

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

and the simple

I would treat it as a drawing and hang it on the wall

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