Yellow and More Yellow: Perfectly Sharpened Mixed Lot of Drawing Pencils in Compton Box fun game with chess certainly an apt

with chess certainly an apt metaphor for the tactics of war

but I've never seen another like this

and I might arrange them both in the soil around a potted plant to create a happy little habitat

beautifully rendered diagrams and illustrations of measuring instruments of many sorts and I don't even know what all (physics was not my forte

1980s-1990s

Yellow and More Yellow: Perfectly Sharpened Mixed Lot of Drawing Pencils in Compton Box fun game with chess certainly an aptPerhaps 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