Five Beautiful Fat Yellow Vintage Grossman’s Lumber Pencils Art Deco design Just a sweet old wooden

Just a sweet old wooden soldier pin

inky glazing

Or turn it upside down--it sits squarely on the ears and snout--and use it as a vase or even as a planter

) Perfectly set against a just right blue ground that makes me think of frescoes

7 3/4 tall x 7 1/4" long x 2" wide and in excellent condition

Five Beautiful Fat Yellow Vintage Grossman’s Lumber Pencils Art Deco design Just a sweet old woodenI found these together in a ziplock bag, and found them so beautiful laid straight side by side I could not resist them. I find pencils generally beautiful things, but these big fat yellow ones all the more so. Grossmans was once a fixture on the South Shore of Boston, so they carry nostalgia for a pre Home Depot era too. (The company was started in the 1910s by Louis Grossman and had expanded to 35 stores in New England states by the 1960s, helping