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BROCKEDON'S PATENT PURI PLUM-
BAGO for ARTISTS, and ENGINEERS' BLACK LEAD
PENCILS.

The perfection to which this article is now brought, in Colour, firm-
ness, entire Purity from Grit, aud ready Erasure, is fully shown in the
accompanying Testimonials from Painters and Engravers, Archi-
tects, Engineers, and other Draughtsmen, who are at once the most
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professions. Nothing is required to be added to this mass of evi-
deuce, bat to point out to Pencil Manufacturers the peculiar advan-
tagew presented by the form of the blocks of this Patent Pluinbago,
for ready application and the avoidance of waste.
Each of the blocks weighs about seven ounces, and they are to be
used by the pencil-makers for such different qualities of pencils as
are known by the centre letters stamped ou the blocks. These
blocks being already tempered for such degrees of hardness and
colour as the letters indicate, cannot be made harder, or treated in
any way to make them harder, without injury to their quality. The
blocks are thus ready for immediate use, of all degrees of colour and
hardness, and possess great advantages, in the uniform quality in
the letter, and in the size of the block, which, being two Inches and a
quarter square, and about one inch thick, enables the maker to have
but one joint in each pencil.

TESTIMONIALS.
From C. L. Eastlake, Esq., ILA., Secretary of the Fine Arts
Commission, &c.
7, Fitzroy-square, December 4, 1845.
My dear Brockedon,—l have tried all the pencils which you have
sent me. I think I may safely say that I have never used any that
work so well. Though perfectly free from grit, the substance is
compact, and the varieties of hardness and tint are as abundant as
any artist can wish. A perfect lead pencil may be said to be at last
produced.

I am, dear Brockedon, very faithfully yours,
W. Brockedon, Esq. C. L. EASTLAKE.
From Copley Fielding, Esq., President of the Water-Colour Society.
Cuckfield, Monday.
My dear Sir.—lt is only very lately that I have been able to try
the pencils which you were so kind as to send me. I have been
sketching with them several times. lam delighted with the purity
of the lead, which allows of so mnch freedom in handling. Your
invention seems perfect, and must insure you the thanks of the
public as soon as its great value is understood. That its importance
may be speedily appreeiated is the sineere wish of,
My dear Sir, yours very truly,
William Breekedon, Esq. COPLEY FIELDING.
From E. T, Parris, Esq.
17, Grafton-street, Bond-street, Dec. 15, 1845.
My dear Sir—l have tried your blacklead pencils, and find the
drawings made with them are of a beautiful colour, de not smudge,
by common friction, but are entirely removed by Indian rudder ;
they also work smoothly and without fear of the !Imes drawn with
them being checked by grit, or breaking. In every way 1 consider
;hem most satisfactory and very superior to any peiclls I have ever
used, and shall take every opportunity of making their qualities
known to my friends and brother artists, that the same advantages
of your valuable production may be enjoyed by others, as by, my
dear sir, yours very truly,
To W. Brockedon, Esq. EDMUND THOMAS PERRIS.
From Philip Hardwick, Esq., R.A, F.R.S., F,S.A.

Russell-square, 15, 1845.
My dear Sir—Having tried the pencils made IN ith lead prepared
by your patent process, I have great pleasure in saying, they appear
to me very superior to any I have lately used, and likely to be a
great acquisition to artists.—l remain, my dear Sir, yours uery truly.
PHILIP HARDWICK.

PRICE 513.

approach ; and this is without the risk of snapping off the point, which
Is the torment, of all others, the most vexatious : this has never once
happenedto me with yours, andg have used one of the HUH nearly a
month. There is no affectation in declaring that I am deeplygrateful
foryour discovery, and though latein making this acknowledgment to
you, I have lost no opportunity meanwhile in endeavouring to make
the great qualities of your pencils as popular as they deserve to be.—
I am, my dear Sir, yours always truly,
W. Brockedon, Esq. WILLIAM HARVEY.
From Professor Brande, F.R.S., &c. &c. &c.
Royal Mint, Feb. 13, 1846.
!try dear Slr —My opinion respecting your Patent riambago
amounts to this ; that by much ingenuity you have overcome nume-
rous difficulties, in the way of compressing comminuted plumbago
into a solid mass of an extraordinary, homogeneous, and unit°, sit
character ; that the fracture and texture of that which you have so
consolidated so closely resembles the finest native specimens as to
render it extremely difficult, if not impossible, to distinguish be-
tween your artificial product and that of the finest quality obtained
from the mines ; that the pencils from yoar manufacture are, as lam-
as my judgment enables me to determine, equal to those made of
the best Borrodale plumbago ; and, lastly, that you have succeeded
In giving to them those different degrees of hardness which are re-
quired by the artist, without rendering them brittle on the one hand,
or pulverulent on the other.—Yours always. very sincerely.
Wm. Brockedou, Esq. WM. THOS. BRANDE.
From Francis Ronalds, Esq., F.R.S., &c., of the Kew Observatory.
" Kew Observatory, Monday.
My dear Sir,—l beg your pardon for having so long delayed to
express my opinion of your patent lead in pencils ; but I do not
regret very much the omission, because it has given me time to test
the specimens fairly whilst snaking my drawings for the report con-
cerning this Observatory to the British Association.
I may conscientiously say that I never used a pencil—l speak of
the 11/1 at this moment—with more satisfaction. It was smooth,
equally hard throughout, and possessed a quality which the harder
sort of pencils hitherto used are deficient in, viz., blackness.
Before I had tried them all, Baron de %Valterlsausea and Professor
Kriel. of Prague, came here, and were so enamoured of them that
they not only took them per force, but almost abused me for not
being able to give them a nearer address than Cheapside or the City-
road, for procuring a stock to take home. I will thank you to put
me in the way of giving better directions in Mitre.
Yours very sincerely, FRANCIS ENALDS.
William Brockedon, Esq.
From Major-General Colby, ILE., F.R.S., &c., &c., &c., of ti e
Ordnance Survey.
Ordnance Map-office, Southampton, Jan 24, 1846.
My dear Sir,—lu reply to your letter of yesterday's date, I have
much pleasure in being able to state that the specimens of pencils
which accompany it are of a very good Quality and quite free from
grit.—Yours very truly, THOS. COLBY.
Prom Charles G. Lewis, Esq., Engraver.
My dear sir,—l have only just now commenced using the pencils
you were so kind to send to me ; they are the best I have ever used,
so very tree from grit ; they are just the thing for the use I am now
making of them, viz., reducing. Time 1111 is quite delightful to draw
with, and a great relief after the many gritty pencils I have been in
the habit of;usiag, and which break incessantly. I regret that I had
non earlier an opportunity of giving them a fair trial.
Believe sue, dear Sir, yours Very faithfullY.
Win. Brockedon, Esq. CHAS. G. LEWIS.
From Mr. Roberson, Artists' Colourman, Long Acre.

51. Long Acre, .fan. 10, 1846.
Dear who have had to contend with the faultiness of
genuine Cumberland lead for some years past, in the manufacture of
lead pencils, ought, as well as the artist who uses them, to be obliged
to you for the riddance of those faults by your new method of pre-
paring lead. The samples that I hare tried fully warrant me in say-
ing that the Arts are now independent of the natural production,
Cumberland lead.—l remain, my dear Sir, yours very sincerely.

_
CHARLES -ROBEASVN.
W. Brockedon, Esq.
From J. T. Willimore, Esq., A.E. .

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23, Polygon, Jan. 1846.
My dear Sir,—l have tried your pencils both for tracing and reduc-
ing, and find them every thing that can be reluired ; they work
freely, and, what is very desirable, they seem quite from grit, which
is not the case with pencils generally ; they also leave a clear and
excellent transfer upon the etching ground.—l remain, dear Sir,
yours faithfully,
JAS. T. WILLMORE.
To W. Brockedon, Esq. _

Frozir Mr. Edward Duncan.

2, Mornington-place, May 11, 1846.
My dear Sir,—l have great pleasure in adding mine to the many
favourable testimonials you have received of the great superiority of
the black lead manufactured by your patent process. I have tried
the specimens of pencils you were so kind as to send me, and I have
no hesitation in stating that, in my opinion, they possess every
quality, in a superior degree, that the artist can require.
Believe me, my dear sir, yours very truly,
To William Brockedon, Esq F.R.S. E. DUNCAN.
Extract from "Elements of Art," by J. D. Harding, Esq., p. 94.
Third Edition.
"Recently the quality of lead pencils, both for purposes of art and
for general use, has been greatly Improved,tn consequence of the dis-
covery, made by my friend Mr. Brockedon, of the mode of preparing
pure plumbago. For years no fresh lead has been obtained from the
Cumberland mines, and the last having been exhausted long ago,
lead pencils were getting every day worse, and insufferable from grit.
To remedy this, composition pencils have been manufactured ; but
these possess no lustre or depth of colour, and it is difficult, some-
times impossible, to efface their markings. By Mr. Brockedon's
invention we obtain the pure black lead in all its lustre and depth of
colour, without a particle of grit, and of any degree of hardness or
softness ; and the markings from are all easily effaced. So great is
the improvementin all respects, even ovtr the pure plumbago in its
native state, that i t may truly be said that until now a perfect lead
pencil has been unknown. Lead pencils from Mr. Brockedon's
Pure Plumbago are now manufactured by Messrs. Morden and Co ,
and by Messrs. Winsor and Newton."
Extract from an , Address delivered at the Anniversary Meeting of
the Geological Society of Louden, 1846, by V..onard Horner,
V.P.R.S., President of the Society.
"Every yearhas disclosed new facts in confirmation of the theory,
that accumulations of detrital matter were transformed into their pre
sent condition mainly by the action of heat, accompanied by other che-
mical actions, and the powerful agency of steam and elastic forces
under enormous pressure. A very ingenious process, invented by
Mr. Brokedon, described in a short paper read before us last year,
by which he converts, under very powerful pressure, the powder of
graphite into a solid mass having a concholdal fracture, and undistin-
guishable from the most compact native back lead, shows that pres-
sure alone may convert fine detrital matter into solid stone.
" 29, Devonshire-street, Queen-square, Bloomsbury."