On March 30, 1858, U.S. Patent No. 19,783, issued on a Pencil & Eraser:

Hymen L. Lipman was born March 20, 1817, and immigrated to the U.S. with his parents in 1829, arriving in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was in the stationery business when he invented a pencil with an attached eraser. In 1862 he sold his patent to Joseph Reckendorfer for $100,000, who then sued Faber for infringement. In 1875, the Supreme Court found the patent invalid because the invention was merely a combination of two preexisting components without any change in their function or operation.