Near Full Half Gross Box of Reliance Ravenwood Hexagon 1080 Medium No 2 Pencils forked surface The style and the amount

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

Relatively newly backed with brown paper and wired for hanging

and him--well

Very early 20th century

There is a little loss to the lid of the box

Near Full Half Gross Box of Reliance Ravenwood Hexagon 1080 Medium No 2 Pencils forked surface The style and the amountFew 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