DescriptionPencil: Pencil Specialty Co., Hoboken, N.J. No date, circa 1960-1970. Hexagonal wood 7-1/2" long; white paint with imprinting in 3 colors; graphite; brass ferrule with eraser. Three examples; unsharpened. Promotional advertising items. Imprinted in three lines: Advertise ------ It Pays [in red] Howard C. Long [in green; presumed to be a salesperson] Pencil Specialty Co., Hoboken, N.J. [in blue] The company was at 1034 Clinton Street and listed in telephone directories as a Division of Venus Pen & Pencil Corp. (Sharing the address and telephone number was Pencil Craft Sales Co., another Venus division ) Venus Pen & Pencil Corporation was formerly the American Lead Pencil Co.(changed in 1956.)