Cardboard sleeve containing twelve crayons
Category
Household and miscellaneous
Date
Unknown
Materials
Dough, Paper, Vegetal
Measurements
88 x 50 mm
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Ormesby Hall, Redcar and Cleveland
NT 708890
Summary
A cardboard sleeve of red and yellow marbling containing twelve crayons, each printed - L and C Hardtmuth - Czecho - Slovakia. The sleeve also containing a card with a coloured scene of men tied to trees in a forest and the inscription XII - L and C - Hardtmuth - Koh-1-Noor, and a paper explaining in four languages that collecting all twelve such cards will elicit a prize from the manufacturers. On the outer face of the sleeve, blue on red and pink and yellow - L and C - Hardtmuth - Box Nr 24 - Koh-i-noor - Pencil Factory - H - Made in Czechoslovakia / Polished twelve coloured - Chalks.
Provenance
Pennyman collection devised in October 1961 to the National Trust under the terms of Colonel JBW Pennyman's Will.