The Civil Service pencil is a bit of an off-shoot from the HMSO pencils.  As such, I’ve found that normally…

Most people will be familiar with De La Rue, usually though: (i) playing cards; (ii) printing money; or (iii) Onoto…

This post came about because of an interesting quirk with Faber’s Polygrade pencils, the ‘moving’ F grade.  You may have…

Let’s talk about the Cumberland Pencil Co; not the one that directly went on the become ‘Derwent’ and has a…

I’ve decided to group a couple of pencils together for this post; the E Wolff & Son ‘Mathematical’ pencil and…

I’d planned on writing about E Wolff & Sons’ ‘Pure Cumberland Lead’ pencils next, but a last-minute change and today’s…

B.S. Cohen Ltd was one of the founding companies of the Royal Sovereign Pencil Co Ltd (via Arthur Johnson Ltd)…

In 1937 Staedtler had their 275th anniversary, and with that, they released a range of ‘275 years’ branded pencils across…

I have covered a lot of Wolff’s pencils on this blog, but I’ve held off on the biggie, the pencil…

This is part 2 of a post on Ann Banks pencils.  The first part can be found here and I…