Jersey

1913 — pp. 28, (1)[Dixon Crucible Company's distributors]. Portrait endorsement photographs of famous drivers with their cars; Teddy Tetzlaff; Barney Oldfield; Harvey Herrick; A. L. Westgard; Mort Roberts; Dave Lewis; Hughie Hughes. 8vo. Original full printed wraps. Crisp copy. Starting in 1827, Joseph Dixon discovered the merits of graphite as a stove polish and an additive in lubricants, foundry facings, brake linings, oilless bearings, and non-corrosive paint and manufactured lubricants, pencils, stove polish and graphite crucibles; refractory vessels used for melting metals and minerals. By 1870, The Joseph Dixon Crucible Company was the world's largest dealer and consumer of graphite and had garnered worldwide recognition for its superior product quality. The Joseph Dixon Crucible Company continued to prosper throughout the 20th Century by growing through a series of mergers, acquisitions, and reorganizations which included the pencil making firm - Dixon Ticonderoga Company. Fine copy. Quite scarce. AUTO/1