Up for bid is a box of sharpened 12 Eberhard Faber Microtomic 603-4H Black Band Gold Ferrule pencils.

The Eberhard Faber Pencil Company was founded in New York City in 1861 by the German-born Eberhard Faber (1822-1879). The brand was essentially a spin-off from the family’s then 100-year-old company known as A. W. Faber. The American branch of the Faber pencil dynasty began in 1848 when the 26-year-old Eberhard went on a scouting trip for high-quality red cedar to ship back to his brothers Lothar and Johann’s pencil plant in Germany. By 1850, Eberhard had settled in New York and opened a stationery store in Manhattan while continuing to export cedar back to Stein. Eberhard’s NYC operation was the first graphite pencil factory opened in the United States, originally located where the UN building currently stands.