Near Full Half Gross Box of Reliance Ravenwood Hexagon 1080 Medium No 2 Pencils forked surface Maine last weekend--pulled out just

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

There is a little loss to the lid of the box

Relatively newly backed with brown paper and wired for hanging

and great looking

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

Near Full Half Gross Box of Reliance Ravenwood Hexagon 1080 Medium No 2 Pencils forked surface Maine last weekend--pulled out justFew 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