Chancellor 2180 HB

Finding this set of pencils was a thrill. Chancellor's are not common to find, especially as a full unsharpened set like this. They were marketed as direct competitors with high end pencils from other Canadian manufacturers like the Eagle Mirado and Venus Velvet. Advertising for this pencil highlighted that it was one of the only pencils to be made with graphite from a Canadian mine.  The Black Donald Graphite Mine served as an important domestic source of graphite during both World War 1 and 2. The mine was later submerged by the construction of the Mountain Chute dam on the Madawaska River by Ontario Hydro in 1967.

Dixon's Chancellor pencil was available in Canada even before they established their factory in Newmarket in 1931. From what I could find, the Chancellor was made in the US for the Canadian market (similar to the Dixon Sovereign pencil). The version manufactured in the US had the number 2170 with eraser tip and 2171 without eraser. A. R. MacDougall Company, Ltd. headquartered in Toronto, ON was the Canadian distributor of Dixon pencils during this time. Below are images from the Bookseller and Stationer and Office Equipment Journal. 

From Bookseller and Stationer April 1917.

A more detailed history of Dixon Chancellor pencils can be found here: pencilseh.weebly.com/blog/the-dixon-chancellor.