L&C Hardtmuth Packaging

Bought in a junk shop in Prague, it is packaging for German markets,as revealed by the reverse. No hint of date.

Pencils from Prague

A brief holiday in Prague last week was enhanced by a very successful haul of old pencils. Just across Legii Most: a junk shop evidently sourced from house clearances and amongst the normal coins, china furniture and so on - some pencils. Most @5kc each, some @10Kc.  To the evident astonishment of the owner I bought almost all of them, and here they are

Prague Haul

Over the next few weeks I plan to write about some of the pencils I bought in this shop.