Pelikan is a famous fountain pen manufacturer, well regarded for maintaining quality though several decades.
It was a real surprise to learn that they also sell woodcase pencils! Unlike the ambiguous situation of the Rotring pencil we looked at last year, the Pelikan pencil does get official corporate acknowledgement at Pelikan’s website.
The Pelikan 2B has a cartoon Pelican on the box, wearing green shorts (lederhosen?), a red shirt, and yellow cravat.
The box states:
* Made of high quality wood and sharpen smoothly (sic)
* Minimum breakage and lesser lead-flaking
The pencils are blue with silver striping, and marked:
2B 0 Pelikan
There is no country of origin information that I can discern. Pelikan pencils in South America originate in Pakistan, according to Pelikan’s website.
The pencils are quite ho-hum. Other than the product’s interesting corporate origin, there is not too much to recommend them.
Doesn’t look like a Lederhos’n to me (greetings from bavaria, btw.), more like a roman soldier’s toga-thing… but how would I know, what a pelikan prefers to wear?
Hi Sebastian, thank you for the comment.
The design of the pencil with silver and two shades of blue is quite appealing (at least to me) although the low quality of the printing spoils it. – I haven’t seen the hardness grade “0” before. A typo on a pencil?
Gunther, how about
2= HB so 1 = B so 0 = 2B.
Hmmm, that means -1 = 3B ????
Hmm, I thought I had seen another pencil with grade “0”.
Oh no – in my weblog of all places. I feel really embarrassed :-\ This gives me pause to think …
LOL!
Gunther, perhaps your collection has outgrown your memory :>))).
Well, there is a special connection: hardness grade “0” – zero overview of my collection ;-) To be honest: I have lost track to a great extent, mainly because of my suboptimal strorage solutions.
>2= HB so 1 = B so 0 = 2B.
>Hmmm, that means -1 = 3B ????
for the “Italia 150” pencil design competition papers (as seen here :) https://www.penciltalk.org/2009/01/matitalia) 3B is 00 (double zero)
memex
memex, what a coincidence! I was just discussing this subject with someone else.
hey, that’s a pre-dixon acquisition temagraph (now they are like a ticonderoga).
it reminds me my childhood.
I get the same pencils from Thailand, seems comes from Pelikan Malaysia…
I found the wood is quite smooth compare to others brand that you can find in South East Asia.
I like the clean blade sharpening compare to the crap material from STAEDTLER.
STAEDTLER Thailand of course… not Germany…
Hi,
I was born and raised in Saudi Arabia as an American. I remember using these huge green Pelikan erasers and their pencils were green with black stripes. I loved them! They were of the high quality of Staedtler. This was around the years 1975 to the early 1980’s. When we left….the one thing I missed from Saudi were those erasers and pencils!!