Pencils, eh
A virtual museum of the golden age of the Canadian pencil industry.
I recently acquired a receipt that appears to be from 1919 from a pencil company that I haven't heard of in the past. The receipt says that the company is a pencil manufacturer but the items on the receipt appear to be dip in penholders and rubber bands. I'm honestly not sure if this is an actual receipt or a page from a 1940s Bookkeeping and Accounting workbook. There are clues that could point in either direction. I learned a few things about invoices by looking at old accounting textbooks. In the top right you'll see the statement "TERMS N/30 2%/10". I found that this means that if the buyer pays the invoice within 10 days, they may deduct 2% of the price of the invoice. If the buyer does not pay in the first 10 days, they are expected to pay the total amount of the invoice in 30 days. These terms are sometime read, "net 30, two ten". The accounting textbook contained several sample invoices that were similar to this one except for the block in the bottoms with all the initials and handwritten notes.
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