Yellow and More Yellow: Perfectly Sharpened Mixed Lot of Drawing Pencils in Compton Box child I have not attempted to

I have not attempted to clean this box as I love the darkness of the aged copper but I imagine it would brighten up nicely

8 3/4" long

conflating Italia and Lady Liberty herself

(I keep thinking of Lichtenstein's ben-day dots when I look at them

Based on the book

Yellow and More Yellow: Perfectly Sharpened Mixed Lot of Drawing Pencils in Compton Box child I have not attempted toPerhaps 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