Nor had we to wait long for this, for shortly afterwards _Lothar Faber_ received a communication from the State ministry of the Royal House and Foreign affairs, stating, that, by the intervention of the Royal Bavarian Embassy at St. Petersburg, the evil had been put a stop to by the Russian Government; all the articles marked with _Faber’s_ trademark together with the stamp destroyed, and the manager of the Russian manufactory compelled to give assurance in writing that he would no longer pirate _Faber’s_ trademark, in default rendering himself liable to legal penalties. In New-York similar frauds were also carried on. Pencils manufactured in Nürnberg with _Faber’s_ trademark and in precise imitations of his wrappers were imported and sold by the firm of Winterhoff, Piper & C^{o.}. Complaint having been made, the Customhouse at New-York, at the instance of the examiner appointed for the department of “Literature, Writingmaterials and fine Arts”, detained one case of these spurious articles, whereupon the courts of law prohibited all further sale in the town and county of New-York. A still more cunning fraud was perpetrated at Nürnberg. A deaf and dumb lithographer by name Georg Wolfgang Faber was put forward, whose name was to be made use of. The similarity of the surname and wrapper exactly copied from those of _Faber’s_ manufactory were sufficient to make the public believe that they really had the genuine article from _Faber’s_ manufactory before them. On the intervention of the authorities, whom _Lothar Faber_ put in motion, the reputed manufacturer was subjected to an examination, which proved him to be altogether incapable of producing such a thing as a serviceable article and shewed that he had only lent his name to other speculators, whereupon the Royal Government of middle Franconia withdrew the licence for pencil making from the said G. W. Faber. Proceedings were likewise taken against a Pencilmanufacturer at Fulda, who had manufactured and circulated upwards of seven thousand dozen leadpencils with the false stamp “A. W. Faber”. The Criminal Court of the Electorate of Hesse in a decision dated 2^{nd} September 1856, condemned the defendant, on account of fraud, to a pecuniary fine of 50 Thalers and further to four weeks imprisonment, a decision, which the supreme Court of Appeal at Cassel absolutely confirmed. Similar events took place in other countries with like results. As the proprietor of the factory has hitherto proceeded against many persons at home and abroad who had attempted to manufacture and sell pencils in imitation of those of his firm he will further use all his efforts to suppress every deception foisted upon the public.