HOT ITEM - Genuine Thoreau Pencil

Bidding Supports: The Thoreau Society and The Thoreau Farm Trust (Concord, MA)

Item Number
175
Value:
1400 USD
Online Close:
2018-03-29 14:00:00.0
Bid History:
40 Bids

Description

This is one of a remainder lot of old pencils presented to the Thoreau Society in 1954 by Arthur W. Parke of Concord who purchased them many years ago from Herbert Nealey, late of Concord.

Mr. Nealy vouched for them as "genuine Thoreau pencils" secured by his father when the Thoreau pencil factory on Belknap street closed.

Pencil condition, unknown.

Item Special Note

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