Collection: Promotional pencils

Promotional pencil and pen holders from businesses, newspapers, or brands that have since disappeared... This collection brings together rare examples of everyday advertising from the late 19th century to the 1930s.

Distributed as promotional gifts, these small, functional objects accompanied customers, travelers, and employees, all while spreading the name of a business or company. Through their graphics, inscriptions, and often unique character, they now constitute a collecting field in their own right, at the crossroads of antique stationery, advertising arts, and historical curiosities.