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"Deer Brand" (鹿牌) pencil
Object/Artifact
Round wood-cased pencil with a brass-colored crimped ferrule and red rubber eraser; opposite end blunt/unsharpened. Cream/ivory barrel printed with a multicolored illustrated-alphabet motif — Latin letters paired with small object illustrations (a plant/carrot, a bottle, a waterbird, etc.) — with the maker's imprint near the ferrule. Both images are the same single pencil rotated to two sides.
2026.2.3
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. Possibly within 1959–1990 but not confirmable. Tentative — see Flags. Place of Origin: China (manufacture; city not stated).
Red leaping-deer trademark; "DEER BRAND"; 鹿牌 (worn); model "861"; decorative illustrations around 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.