[The American Stationer, May 9, 1914. Click for a larger view.]
“Round, having a novel finish of small squares in assorted colors,” says the advertisement. “Most effective in appearance.” You can see the pencil in color at Brand Name Pencils. It’s a wow.
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Friday, February 10, 2023
Cubist pencil
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I wondered if, at 1914, this predated the use of "Cubism" as an art movement, but I read that Cubism came in at 1909 and 1911.
ReplyDeleteAnd the Armory Show was in 1913. So Cubism was in the air.
ReplyDeleteI was trying to figure out where on my hard drive I have a copy of an alphabet-book spoof of Cubism. It’s called The Cubies. (No wonder I couldn’t find it by searching for cubism and cubist.) Archive.org has it. It’s from 1913.
pen and pencil combo
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cubist valentine
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Wow! Just wow! "G is for Gertrude Stein's limpid lucidity." Thanks for pointing to this.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the links, Anon.
ReplyDeleteAnd you’re welcome, George. I was trying to remember how I found about it and found the answer — where else? — in a post about the Armory Show.
1232 pen and pencil combo, different name?
ReplyDeletehttps://books.google.com/books/content?id=Xpk7AQAAMAAJ&pg=RA6-PA25&img=1&zoom=3&hl=en&bul=1&sig=ACfU3U1gOIic6YUhXFFGYymgm9PpjuwXdQ&w=1025
Or it might just be a checked pattern — not as outré as the Cubist design.
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