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Tif- handle with lino-pens

Description: One boxed tool for carving labeled Tif- handle with lino-pens, manufactured by Heintze & Blanckertz, Berlin, Germany, ca. 1935. The tool is constructed of a wooden handle into which various carving bits are inserted. A glasseine envelope containing several bits complete the set. Stamped into the handle are "TIF 135, Germany" and "M. Grunbac Germany." The set is housed within a slipcase paperboard box with "Set Nr. 903" printed at one end. The paper covering of the box is in a brown and white bamboo pattern and has black lettering.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: circa 1935
Call number: ephKAEE
Creator: Korzenik, Diana (1941-)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Diana Korzenik, August 1997.; transferred from Huntington Art Reference Library, May 2000.

One carving tool manufactured by J.L. Hammett Company

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One carving tool manufactured by J.L. Hammett Co., ca. 1935? The tool is comprised of a rounded wooden handle with one flat side and a 2 1/4 inch grooved metal bit. "Hammett" is stamped into the end of the handle. Title supplied by cataloger.

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Paper Weaving for Little Folks

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One boxed paper weaving set entitled Paper Weaving for Little Folks, manufactured by the Sam'l Gabriel Sons & Company, New York, ca. 1920. The subtitle reads: "Simple, Instructive, Amusing: To Keep Busy The Little Hands and Little Head." The set includes 24 sheets of colored, prepared paper, one printed sheet showing sample weaving designs, and a metal weaving tool. The weaving paper is in two sets; one set contains widely-spaced (1/2 inch) cuts, and the other set contains more closely-set (1/4 inch) cuts. In some of the sheets the cuts are horizontal, and others, the cuts are vertical. The set is housed in a paperboard box with a color image on the top lid; the illustration is the same as the sample sheet inside the box. The two sets of paper are on either side of a narrow divider box which holds the metal weaving tool. "No. T 227" and "Printed in Germany" are printed in the lower right-hand corner of the box lid. This weaving set has not been used.

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Shipping Pencils

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One boxed set of lead shipping pencils entitled Shipping Pencils, manufactured by Clark Indelible Pencil Co., Northampton, Massachusetts, ca. 1890-1915. The set is comprised of a dozen (2 are missing) pencils, each in a wooden, cylinder-like case bearing a green paper label. Each label reads: "Shipping Pencil. (Clark's pat. Jany. first.) For directing all kinds of merchandise. A substitute for marking brush! Directions: Sponge the place to be marked, with clean water, and write. Manufactured by Clark Indelible Pencil Co., Northampton, Massachusetts." The handle and wood encasing each pencil is made of a darker wood than the slipcase bearing the label. A paper slip is laid into the box, which describes the pencils and their prices.

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Water Soluble Anadel

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One boxed set of colored pencils entitled Water Soluble Anadel, manufactured by the Joseph Dixon Crucible Company, Jersey City, New Jersey, ca. 1935. The set is comprised of 8 colored pencils within a paperboard slipcase box.

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Dixon’s Eldorado: 'the master drawing pencil'

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One boxed set of lead pencils entitled Dixon's Eldorado: 'the master drawing pencil,' manufactured by the Joseph Dixon Crucible Company, Jersey City, New Jersey, ca. 1940. The set was issued with one dozen pencils; one is missing from this set. The pencils are varying degrees of hardness. The box is blue with gold lettering; the outer box serves as a slipcase for the inner box.

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Two sets of colored pencils manufactured Koh-I-Noor Pencil Company

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Two sets of colored pencils and one Universal Holder No. 48, manufactured by Koh-I-Noor Pencil Co. and L. & C. Hardtmuth, Inc., Czechoslovakia and Bloomsbury, New Jersey, respectively, ca. 1930. The larger of the two pencil sets contains 11 colored pencils and a "lengthener" within a paperboard box and slipcase. The second set is comprised of 4 unused colored pencils within a paperboard box and slipcase. The Universal Holder is a metal pencil-like holder "for Graphite leads No. 2018 - Negro leads No. 2610 [and] Sanguine Leads No. 2620." Title supplied by cataloger.

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Tif- handle with lino-pens

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