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H Wuebbold Company Dealer Imprint Litho in USA PS 4x
OVERVIEW
Original circa 1947 Dixon Ticonderoga Ticonderoga Boy advertising ink blotter distributed through H Wuebbold and Company of Hamilton Ohio.
The front features a vivid red schoolroom advertising design centered on a young student using a pencil, accompanied by an oversized yellow Dixon Ticonderoga 1386 No 2 pencil and the slogan A Fine American Pencil With A Fine American Name.
The lower portion carries the local dealer imprint for H Wuebbold and Company at 11-13 N Third Street Hamilton Ohio with telephone numbers 44751 and 44752.
This combination of nationally produced Dixon advertising artwork and a specific local Ohio merchant imprint gives the piece crossover appeal as both vintage brand advertising and Hamilton area business ephemera.
The lower left margin also retains the original printed production marking LITHO IN U S A PS-4x, an important manufacturing detail confirming United States lithographic production.
The PS-4x designation appears to be a printer, production, or job code and is retained exactly as printed rather than assigning an unsupported printer attribution.
ADVERTISING & HISTORICAL DETAILS
The principal product depicted is the classic yellow Dixon Ticonderoga No 2 pencil, visibly marked:
DIXON TICONDEROGA 1386 No 2.
The Ticonderoga name had already become one of the most recognizable American pencil brands by the mid-twentieth century, and this piece represents the company's strong emphasis on the school and education market.
Across the top is the large white TICONDEROGA name above the slogan:
A Fine American Pencil With A Fine American Name.
The central classroom image presents the pencil in direct association with American school life, while the oversized product illustration, red field, and Ticonderoga Boy caption create a particularly strong postwar educational advertising composition.
The dealer imprint reads H Wuebbold & Company 11-13 N Third St Phones 44751 - 44752 Hamilton Ohio.
This local imprint is an important component of the artifact. Promotional blotters such as this allowed national manufacturers to provide attractive branded advertising that could simultaneously promote a local office supply, stationery, or business products dealer.
A separate manufacturing inscription appears at the extreme lower left corner reading LITHO IN U.S.A. PS-4x.
This establishes that the advertising piece was lithographically printed in the United States.
The PS-4x portion is preserved as an original production code; no specific printer attribution is made because the code has not been independently identified.
CONTEXT & COLLECTOR APPEAL
This piece is more interesting than a conventional clipped advertisement because it survives as a complete dealer-imprinted advertising blotter with its original local business identification and production marking intact.
The Ticonderoga Boy schoolroom design is especially appealing because it captures the postwar relationship between branded consumer goods and American education.
The young student, classroom setting, oversized No 2 pencil, and patriotic advertising language all reinforce the positioning of Ticonderoga as a familiar American school product.
The H Wuebbold and Company imprint adds a second collecting layer. In addition to Dixon and Ticonderoga advertising collectors, the blotter has appeal to collectors of Hamilton Ohio history, Butler County business ephemera, vintage office supply advertising, school memorabilia, pencil advertising, and mid-century commercial graphics.
The surviving LITHO IN U.S.A. PS-4x imprint further strengthens the piece as an intact period advertising object because it preserves a manufacturing detail that is often absent from clipped or incomplete examples.
ITEM SPECIFICS
Country: United States
Date: Circa 1947
Brand: Dixon Ticonderoga
Manufacturer: Joseph Dixon Crucible Company
Type: Advertising Ink Blotter
Advertising Campaign: Ticonderoga Boy
Product: Dixon Ticonderoga No 2 Pencil
Model Shown: Ticonderoga 1386 No 2
Dealer: H Wuebbold & Company
Dealer Address: 11-13 N Third St Hamilton Ohio
Dealer Telephone: 44751 and 44752
Place of Origin: United States
Region: Hamilton Ohio
Printing Method: Lithography
Printer Mark: LITHO IN U.S.A. PS-4x
Color: Multicolor
Industry: Office Supplies Stationery Education
Subject: Ticonderoga Boy Schoolroom Advertising
Topic: Dixon Ticonderoga Boy Pencil Hamilton Ohio Advertising Ephemera
Reverse: Blank
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CONDITION
Original vintage advertising blotter in attractive collectible condition with normal evidence of age and handling.
The red Ticonderoga advertising field remains strong and visually appealing, with the classroom scene, oversized yellow pencil, Ticonderoga Boy caption, and H Wuebbold & Company dealer imprint all clearly readable. The lower-left LITHO IN U.S.A. PS-4x production mark is also clearly present.
The piece shows light overall age toning, minor surface wear, scattered handling marks, and modest edge and corner wear consistent with vintage commercial ephemera.
Some faint discoloration is visible in the lighter lower portion.
The reverse remains blank with normal age-related surface characteristics.
Please review the high-resolution photographs carefully for exact color, printing, surface condition, edges, corners, and any minor marks.
