Mechanical Pencil
date: label: Date
content: 1835–1850
name: label: Manufacturer
content: Thomas Addison, American, 1795 – 1854
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Bands of foliate scrolls above a perpetual calendar with the days of the week letters (MTWTFSS) and numbers of month above reeded stem, with retractable point.
place: label: manufactured in
content: New York, New York, USA
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Anonymous Donor
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1931-24-17
objectType: label: Type
content: metalwork
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Object Name
content: mechanical pencil
label: Type
content: mechanical pencil
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: silver
label: Dimensions
content: H x diam.: 10.4 × 1.2 cm (4 1/8 × 1/2 in.)