Dear fellow MUSEUM-L members,

Is anyone out there familiar with an institution that might be interested in a large (upper 5 figures) collection of advertising pencils? The owner's nephew has asked me to help find a possible home that wouldn't break up the collection. I am familiar with the pencil museum in Kiswick, UK, but we're hoping to locate a domestic institution.

The pencils come from all over the US, advertising all sorts of businesses, and date from as far back as the early 20th century.  

Any ideas?


Kenneth A MacLennan
Curator, Museum on Main
Pleasanton, CA

"Feelings are indispensable to man, but they become terrible the moment they see themselves as values, as criteria of truth, as justifications for behavior."
--Milan Kundera, Jacques and His Master (1981), Introduction (tr. Simon Callow, 1985)


      

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