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"Deer Brand" (鹿牌) pencil No. 868, HB grade — foliate design
Object/Artifact
Round wood-cased pencil with a brass-colored crimped ferrule and red rubber eraser; opposite end blunt/unsharpened. White/cream barrel printed with scattered small green foliate/plant motifs and red/blue accents, plus the maker's imprint and a red leaping-deer trademark near the ferrule. Both images are the same single pencil rotated to two sides.
2026.2.9
2026.2
Alberto Darias Marcos
People's Republic of China
Asia
"Deer Brand" (鹿牌 / "DEER BRAND")
Maker: "Deer Brand" (鹿牌 / "DEER BRAND"), a Chinese pencil brand; red leaping-deer trademark. Specific manufacturing factory not identified. Date: Uncertain; not independently datable. Export markings and style are consistent with mid-to-late 20th-century Chinese production; the model "868 HB" is documented among vintage Deer Brand pencils. Possibly within 1959–1990 but not confirmable. Tentative — see Flags.
Red leaping-deer trademark; "DEER BRAND"; 鹿牌; grade "HB"; model "868" (read as "HB 8…"; confirmed against documented Deer Brand 868); "MADE IN C[HINA]"; Chinese characters including 造 ("made"). Scattered foliate motifs on the barrel.
Materials: Wood barrel (cedar or basswood); graphite/clay lead; brass-colored metal ferrule; rubber eraser; lithographed/printed finish. Technique: Mass-manufactured wood-cased pencil; barrel printed with pictorial alphabet design and brand imprint; ferrule crimped; eraser inserted.
Fair
People's Republic of China
Asia
production
Havana
Cuba
Caribbean
Central America
use
"Deer Brand" (鹿牌) is a documented vintage Chinese pencil brand; the specific model here corresponds to the Deer Brand 868 HB. A "Vintage Yellow Deer Brand 868 HB Unsharpened Pencil" is offered as a vintage Chinese pencil, confirming the brand, model number, and grade.