Yellow and More Yellow: Perfectly Sharpened Mixed Lot of Drawing Pencils in Compton Box giant carved head Spine measures 6 1/2" x

Spine measures 6 1/2" x 1 5/8"

Standing on three great little legs

5 3/8 l x 2" t x 1 13/16" w

and inside still is the cork they were pinned to

Yellow and More Yellow: Perfectly Sharpened Mixed Lot of Drawing Pencils in Compton Box giant carved head Spine measures 6 1/2" xPerhaps there is nothing as beautiful as a yellow pencil with a very sharp point formally, and as potential embodied, too. And though much stained, what a perfect yellow box, too. I've found records for W. S. Greenough, Boston, dating to as early as the 1860s, but believe this box likely dates to the earlyish 20th c. The pencils are a mix of Compton's, Dixon, Mongol, Ward's Boston, and a few others, some with erasers, some without, all in that perfect