How Slate Pencils Were Made
The follow article, published in 1901, describes how slate pencils were made. Slate Pencils The Are No Longer Cut From Solid Slate. Slate pencils were formerly all cut from solid slate, just as it is dug from the earth, but pencils so made were objected to on account of the grit which they contain, and which would scratch the slate.
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