Super Early and Ultra Scarce Set of Dixon's No. 1528 Solid Crayons, c. 1900 charming pitcher This is one of three

This is one of three early vaudeville postcards I purchased together from one seller

I'm terrible photographing whites

10 1/2” x 6 11/16”

and signal codes along with them

I would guess this hand-painted poster was not made to advertise the Powder magazine that covered skiing and snowboarding

Super Early and Ultra Scarce Set of Dixon's No. 1528 Solid Crayons, c. 1900 charming pitcher This is one of threeI've done a fair bit of hunting around to date this specific box of Dixon crayons precisely, but they're earlier than the earliest other set I've found, that one 1910 and in the collection of the Huntington Libraries. But based on the logo and the font and the treatment of text here, I am pretty confident these date to just about 1900, making them a very scarce set indeed. I love them like I love Froebel's Kindergarten blocks; a distilled set of tools