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FABER , the name of a See also:

family of See also:German See also:lead-See also:pencil manufacturers. Their business was founded in 176o at See also:Stein, near See also:Nuremberg, by Kaspar Faber (d. 1784). It was then inherited by his son Anton Wilhelm (d. 1819). Georg Leonhard Faber succeeded in 1810 (d. 1839), and the business passed to Johann Lothar von Faber (1817-1896), the See also:great-See also:grandson of the founder. At the See also:time of his assuming See also:control about twenty hands were employed, under old-fashioned conditions, and owing to the invention of the See also:French crayons Conies of See also:Nicolas Jacques See also:Conte (q.v.) competition had reduced the entire Nuremberg See also:industry to a See also:low ebb (see PENCIL). Johann introduced improvements in machinery and methods, brought his factory to the highest See also:state of efficiency, and it became a modelfor all the other German and See also:Austrian manufacturers. He established branches in New See also:York, See also:Paris, See also:London and See also:Berlin, and agencies in See also:Vienna, St See also:Petersburg and See also:Hamburg, and made his greatest coup in 1856, when he contracted for the exclusive control of the See also:graphite obtained from the See also:East Siberian mines. Faber had also branched out into the manufacture of See also:water-See also:colour and oil paints, inks, slates and See also:slate-pencils, and See also:engineers' and architects' See also:drawing See also:instruments, and built additional factories to See also:house his various See also:industries at New York and at Noisy-le-Sec, near Paris, and had his own See also:cedar See also:mills in See also:Florida. For his services to German industry he received a patent of See also:nobility and an See also:appointment as councillor of state.

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death of his widow (1903) the business was inherited by his See also:grand-daughter Countess Otilie von Faber-See also:Castell and her See also:husband, See also:Count See also:Alexander.

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