Pencil
- Title:
- Merrimack Farmers' Exchange, Inc.
- Object Name:
- Pencil
- Object ID:
- 2019.001
- Date:
- circa 1970
- Description:
- Advertising pencil. Cylindrical wooden shaft with graphite core. Yellow painted surface. Imprinted lengthwise in black: "MERRIMACK FARMERS' EXCHANGE, Inc. / The Farmer's Business / Main Office, Concord, New Hampshire / 20 STORES TO SERVE YOU". Brass ferrule with pink (now darkened) rubber eraser. Unsharpened.
- Material:
- Wood
Graphite
Metal
Rubber - Dimensions:
- L-7.5 Dia-0.3 inches
- Provenance:
- From a large collection of pencils and pens donated by a Minnesota collector to the Rice County Historical Society, Faribault, MN, in 2017.
Merrimack Farmers' Exchange was a cooperative that operated from 1920 to 1982. Based in Concord, NH, it had 20 regional stores at its peak, including some in Maine and Vermont. - Credit Line:
- Gift of the Rice County Historical Society
- Subjects:
- Advertising, Pencils, Farmers' groups, Agricultural groups
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