Up for bid is a  sealed package of 12 unused Fairchild Republic Company #2 pencils made by the Wallace Pencil Co. of St. Louis MO.

The Wallace Pencil Company began manufacturing wooden pencils in St. Louis in 1915. By 1979 it sold 120 million pencils per year. Before the 1950s, the firm packaged some of these pencils, such as its Motif line, in metal tins. Dixon Ticonderoga acquired the firm in the 1980s.