Pencil
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A pencil is a writing or drawing implement with a solid pigment core in a protective casing that reduces the risk of core breakage and keeps it from marking the user's hand.
Staedtler HB graphite pencils
Coloured pencils (Caran d'Ache)
Old Soviet colored pencils with box (circa 1959)
Palomino Blackwing 602 pencils
Dixon Ticonderoga
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The Dixon Ticonderoga Company is an American manufacturer of office and art supplies based in Heathrow, Florida. A subsidiary of Italian-based F.I.L.A. SpA, the company offers a number of brands, with
Pencil
…mass-produce pencils. By 1870, the Joseph Dixon Crucible Company was the world's largest dealer and consumer of graphite and later became the contemporary Dixon Ticonderoga pencil and art supplies company. By the end of the nineteenth century, over 240,000 pencils were used each day in the United States. The favoured timber…
Joseph Dixon, founder
An assortment of pencils manufactured by the Dixon Ticonderoga Company