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Credit: Reddit. Two full boxes and a partial box of Eberhard Faber Blackwing pencils owned by Stephen Sondheim sold at auction yesterday. The price for the 32 pencils? A cool $US6400.00. The photos reveal a reverse printed ("left handed") Blackwing. And t

Click to enlarge When the Musgrave Single Barrel pencil came out, the blog noted that it was priced at $US10 a pencil. (Today it is $14.) This placed the Single Barrel in the same stratospheric market segment as the famous Graf von Faber-Castell Desk Penc

A recent post mentioned finding new Mongol branded pencils at retailers in Panama. There are some surprises regarding these pencils. They were made in both China and Vietnam for PaperMate/Newell Rubbermaid, and exported to Latin America. Let's take a look

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Eberhard Faber IV, the final president and CEO of the Eberhard Faber pencil company, passed away in the fall of 2022. The family obituary is here. A Princeton Alumni article is here. Eberhard Faber was generous with our own community, sharing insights wit

In April I was able to visit Panama, the very interesting and beautiful country that bridges the Americas. I looked for a specialty papeleria, but didn't find one. If you have a recommendation, please let me know! That goes for coffee shops as well. While

This year has started with some travel. One of the most unusual and delightful things I've done is to take a ferry from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Montevideo, Uruguay. And one of the surprises was an onboard duty free shop with a Caran d'Ache section! Air

This morning, a complete set of the original 1997 Colleen Woods pencils sold at an online auction for ¥110,000. The price is a validation of the importance and rarity of these pencils. Please see the previous posts on the Colleen Woods for more informatio