Super Early and Ultra Scarce Set of Dixon's No. 1528 Solid Crayons, c. 1900 modern drawing Found in Maine

Found in Maine

Found together and offered together

with a great warm presence that one feels accrued as it was passed along from one generation to the next to the next

This makes me happy for all sorts of reasons

" so perhaps this was a souvenir from St

Super Early and Ultra Scarce Set of Dixon's No. 1528 Solid Crayons, c. 1900 modern drawing Found in MaineI've done a fair bit of hunting around to date this specific box of Dixon crayons precisely, but they're earlier than the earliest other set I've found, that one 1910 and in the collection of the Huntington Libraries. But based on the logo and the font and the treatment of text here, I am pretty confident these date to just about 1900, making them a very scarce set indeed. I love them like I love Froebel's Kindergarten blocks; a distilled set of tools