This promotional package for Eberhard Faber’s circular erasers comes with a story, or rather a short short story: “The Sudden Disappearance of Miss Take.”
The inside has a cavity with room for one eraser. In this case a No. 6580 Medium, which is for “average use.”
The travails of Mr. Boss and Miss Doe are as follows:
Let’s hope Miss Take has learned her lesson, and won’t be showing up again anytime soon.
Contrapuntalism 
In the movies they keep their guns in those cavities, but an eraser seems a much nicer option.
My father had one of those when I was a kind, the eraser, not this promotional material. I don’t know which brand, but I never knew how they worked. I assume the rubber was just too old and that’s why it didn’t seem to work at all…
Thanks for showing us.
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What a beautiful item! Thank you for showing. – memm: As far as I know these erasers were generally quite hard and contained glass powder or pumice powder so that they could remove the paper in thin layers.
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That’s how it seemed to me at the time, they damaged the paper. Either EF exaggerated in this ad (“…cleanly without injuring this paper”) or EF had a much better typewriter eraser than most competitors.
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I would say “What a beautiful item,” but Gunther already has. Oh, I’ll say it anyway: What a beautiful item! I have such an eraser somewhere, with a green brush attached. I think it was probably already beyond usability when I bought it (as a thing to have, not use).
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Isn’t there also a work of art somewhere in the shape of an oversized typewriter eraser with a brush?
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