Yum. I found and sold (for way too little) a salesman sample box full of various Hammett paper and notebook samples years ago and have thought about it VERY often since, so I jumped on these two FAST when I spotted them--the best examples of the bunch. I love them like I love a box of early kindergarten blocks or an antique watercolor set--the perfect combo of modular order and endless possibility.
John L. Hammett was a schoolteacher who had authored grammar books and worked as a representative of a publishing house. In 1863 he established a small school-supply shop in Rhode Island and, two years later, moved it to a single store location in Boston. Hammett was an inventor as well, developing a "slating paint" for chalkboards and the chalkboard eraser (as the story goes, during a presentation, when he could not find a cloth to wipe his slate, he picked up a carpet remnant and discovered that it cleaned the slate much better than the cloths he had been using.) In 1891 the company formed a partnership with game-producer Milton Bradley of Springfield, Massachusetts, and pioneered the production of kindergarten materials in the United States Read more: https://www.referenceforbusiness.com/history/He-Ja/J-L-Hammett-Company.html#ixzz7aukmdrWf
Neutrals: 9 1/8" x 3 3/8". Color: 9 5/8" x 3 1/8" Both in very good condition, sold as a pair.
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