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From Mitsubishi and Faber-Castell, we have pre-shortened versions of the Uni and Castell 9000 pencils. They are meant for use in pencil holders from these firms. The Uni is unsharpened, while the 9000 has a factory sharpening. Both are sold in packages of three. The Caran d’Ache Tricolor is another vintage multipencil, no less complicated than the pencil in the previous post. Gold-plated, the cap is inscribed “Plaqué D’or”. It is a leadholder with three (graphite, red, blue) inserts. Instructions are always good, but warnings in special red ink can be a bit scary. (Non-literal translation: If you break [...] Sorry for recent website outages – some rough weather was playing havoc with local power on the weekend. Today, let’s reach way back in the pencil cupboard and pull out a vintage multipencil. This particular one has four colours. Thanks to leadholder.com’s archives, I can see that this pencil appeared on page 47 of Faber-Castell’s [...] A companion to Eberhard Faber’s geometry pencil, this is a triangular shaped pencil that mimics an architect’s scale. Though I have only one, I did sharpen it! It is a delight. My thanks to Gunther from Lexikaliker for sending me this pencil! Though Pentel may be known for mechanical pencils and lead refills, their woodcase pencil products are equally outstanding. In our lineup today, we have: Pentel Mark Sheet Pencil Pentel Tuff Pencil Pentel Black Polymer 999 Copyist Pentel Black Polymer 999 Pentel Black Polymer 999? (999 alpha) The Pentel Mark Sheet pencil is Pentel’s entry in [...] Just after mentioning Mitsubishi’s set of 240 colour pencils, we have this: A 500 colour set! Astounding! (thanks to Kero556′s twitter feed) |
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