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Continue reading →: B. S. Cohen’s prize pocket pencil
Before we look at today’s pencil, a quick recap for those not already up to date – B. S. Cohen makers eventually became Arthur Johnson makers. Arthur Johnson eventually merged with E. Wolff & Son and became the Royal Sovereign Pencil Co. Let’s look at the prize pocket pencil. It…
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Continue reading →: Staedtler Test Pencils
Another simple ‘show and tell’ style post today; however, the pencils are still pretty interesting. I came across this set quite a few years ago. I hadn’t seen another example before, and I haven’t seen another example since – that’s the kind of item I always try to hunt out…
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Continue reading →: Pitman’s Special Shorthand Pencil
I know that shorthand will be of interest to a lot of people. I find it fascinating, but it is so specialist and I don’t think its a topic that I’d want to spend the time it deserves reading into and researching. Generally i have found that shorthand pencils tend…
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Continue reading →: Ann Banks / Cox & Co’s pencil display
I recently picked up a set of Cox & Co’s Object lessons. The set contained three ‘lessons’: how needles are made, how pen nibs are made, and how pencils are made. Whilst the other two are interesting, it’s the pencil cards that I really bought the set for. As an…
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Continue reading →: Faber Castell Wedding Pencil
I thought I’d show a bit of a curiosity pencil today. When I first spoke to the Faber archives about this pencil, they really didn’t have much to say about it as it wasn’t a catalogued release. So they very kindly went straight to the source and asked Countess Mary…
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Continue reading →: E Wolff & Son and Arthur Johnson Merge
If you are a reader of my blog, or indeed, even have a general interest in British made pencils, you’ll be aware that the Royal Sovereign Pencil Co. Ltd. was formed out of a merger between E. Wolff & Son Ltd. and Arthur Johnson Ltd. (Arthur Johnson Ltd. forming out…
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Continue reading →: American Lead Pencil Company sets
UK made pencils are my main ‘thing’, but another one of my main collection directions is boxed ‘writing’ sets. Most major pencil makers produced really excellent sets, usually containing a mix of pencils, nib holders, erasers etc. Wolff made a very early example in the late 1800s which I’ve been…
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Continue reading →: Mitsubishi Anniversary Editions
Mitsubishi make/made a LOT of pencils. If you were to gather up all the variations they have made in the last 50 years it would quite literally be hundreds and hundreds of models. It’s for that reason that I have tended to avoid putting many of them on this blog.…
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Continue reading →: Cumberland Pencil Company Limited Catalogue – 1920
Continuing the series of Cumberland Pencil Co Ltd catalogues, today we have the catalogue from 1920. The other two catalogues can be found on my blog, here: i. 1930 Catalogue ii. Post-War Catalogue The aim of putting these catalogues online is to help people try and date some of the…
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Continue reading →: E Wolff & Son’s Academy Chalk Pencil
Today we take a look at E Wolff & Son’s ‘Academy Chalk’ pencils. I’ve come across three variations of this pencil; the two older versions featured in this post and the more modern version, as seen on Bob Truby’s site here. A quick reminder about Wolff’s pencils in general: pencils…
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