1. Martini Auctions
It is nice to know that there are alternatives to eBay.
What’s amazing to me is that Martini Auctions consistently has some of the absolutely rarest and most collectible pencil items around:
A Sterling Silver Faber-Castell TK 9400 Leadholder. Mentioned at leadholder.com, examples of this limited edition of 1948 are rarely seen. The asking price? [...]
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.
The Guilloche version is not the only recent Graf von Faber-Castell pencil variant.
Also for sale in some markets is the original version, but without the silver plated cap.
I’d hesitate to call it a “discount” Graf von Faber-Castell pencil – but perhaps that wording is correct.
PenciLog (in Korea) first displayed this pencil online – perhaps a [...]
The pencil industry continued to see changes in 2009.
In the US, the last American produced Dixon pencils disappeared from store shelves. Sanford meanwhile announced the end of their US production. (Dixon is owned by FILA, and Sanford is a division of Newell Rubbermaid.) Smaller firms General Pencil of New Jersey and Musgrave of Tennessee [...]
Internet sensation Field Notes probably need no introduction. Seen here with another agrarian rooted stationery supply – the bullet pencil – the notebooks are quirky, fun, and useful.
What they don’t tell you is that these alternate versions like “Just Below Zero” don’t just have different colour covers – they have different colour rulings!
To all [...]
Snow, ice, and the temperature can be frequent topics of conversation in December.
This temperature talk reminded me of an interesting pencil from Kirin, a smaller Japanese pencil manufacturer.
The rectangular pencil has a small thermometer attached.
The side of the pencil is marked:
Kirin Japan/Japon NEC-42 HB
The finish is very nice – a very thick clear [...]
