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Pencils, Various Makers, English, Czechoslovakia and Switzerland, c. 1940

Inventory Number 55433


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.55433

Item type
Object
Provenance
Presented by G. L'E Turner 1981
Primary inscriptions
See below.
Physical material
Wood
pencil lead and wax
Inventory No
55433

Description

11 war-time pencils: five plain unsigned, one Venus Pencil Co. Ltd. Utility Wax Blue, one Cumberland Pencil Co. Ltd. "WAR DRAWING" HB, one Cumberland Pencil Co. Ltd. "UTILITY" Blue, one L.& C. HARDTMUTH (GREAT BRITAIN) LTD "Pephisto" COPYING 73B HARD, one Mase in Czechoslovakia IMPRIME MISR", and one CARAN D'ACHE MADE IN SWITZERLAND C 846795 with three fishes trademark (and defaced by Turner).