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Colleen, a company we’ve mentioned before, makes double ended colour pencils – in round, hexagonal, and triangular shapes! I simply cannot think of another manufacturer offering a specialty pencil in such a variety of formats. Here is the “Mandarin Orange and Emerald Green” pencil in all three shapes: Offerings like these bode well for Colleen. [...] Blog reader Donnie kindly alerted me to an important auction. The background story is here at the Blackwing Diaries. The auction is here: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250570325938 and ends February 7th. Faber-Castell’s Brazilian operation makes 1.8 billion pencils a year! It is a true wonder that more don’t wash up overseas. Well perhaps they do – but their origins aren’t mentioned. So here is an exception – the Presto 1210 is clearly stamped “Ind. Brasil” and sold in a package marked “Origen: Brasil”. The samples I [...] Please take a look at pencils and music, a new blog focused on great writing implements and paper for music composition. It will not disappoint those who like Graf von Faber-Castell’s fine creations, and the first few posts show some of the rare and long retired early pencil versions. |
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