On View
Not on viewPencils
Artist
J. and Son Thoreau
Date1850-1860
Dimensions16.5 × 0.64 cm (6 1/2 × 1/4 in.)
MarkingsLabel: "Thoreau Pencil". Stamped: "J. Thoreau & Son, Concord, Mass."
Credit LineBequest of Colonel George Lincoln Prescott (1941)
Object numberTH93
Description#2 or #3 pencil (label covers marking). Slim, cedar casing; square graphite center. Unsharpened.With one exception, the pencils in the Museum collection are all made the same way. The case, 6 1/2