Scarce c. 1860s E. Eberhard Faber Polygrade Drawing Pencils in Original Case with Snap Closure for sale or for celebrating one's own

or for celebrating one's own sweet home

with small chips the marble along one edge and one corner as documented

Very skillfully done

The lacquer on the interior of the box is in very good shape

Scarce c. 1860s E. Eberhard Faber Polygrade Drawing Pencils in Original Case with Snap Closure for sale or for celebrating one's ownI love pencils, and pencil boxes, but I am not a pencil connoisseur so I did not know, in finding this box (in southern Maine this week), how early (sometime between 1855 77) and how notable it is among pencil aficionados! Faber polygrade pencils, launched in 1837, were important in offering pencils according to a system of standard grades, and established the Faber name globally. They were also the first by Faber to use the Cont Hardmuth process of