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This is a pencil set from the past – a promotional set featuring American presidents. As I understand it, a set like this was sent as a bonus to those who returned coupons and promotional offers contained in 1960s products such as Clorox Bleach.
The set also contains a booklet, “The Book of Presidents”. It mentions many facts and dates!
Below are ten pencils from one of the last American pencil makers – Musgrave – the pencils feature Constitution Day, state capitals, and past presidents.
If you would like the Musgrave set, just answer (as a comment below) one of these questions from the pencil talk research department:
1. Name the movie about an American President that includes a woman knocking over a cup of pencils.
2. Which US President was said to have drafted his battle plans in pencil when he was a General in the Civil War?
3. Several US Presidents were known to be doodlers. Among them, which one briefly considered a career as a cartoonist?
There is only one set, so the first correct answer wins. The winner will have to provide a postal address (via email). Shipment will be via Canada Post. Thanks to the Musgrave Pencil Co. for providing these pencils.
2. Ulysses S. Grant.
We have a winner!
Here are the answers with sources:
1. Name the movie about an American President that includes a woman knocking over a cup of pencils.
Answer: The American President
http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/american_president.html
2. Which US President was said to have drafted his battle plans in pencil
when he was a General in the Civil War?
Answer: Grant
http://www.pencils.com/pencil-information/famous-pencil-users
3. Several US Presidents were known to be doodlers. Among them, which one briefly considered a career as a cartoonist?
Answer: Reagan
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/article636696.ece
I’d much like to purchase a set of the u.s. presidents pencils, ref. https://www.penciltalk.org/2008/11/presidential-pencils
Any idea where someone might wish to sell a set, tried ebay.
Your site’s the only hit I found for the pencils.
I have a set of 34 United States Presidential Pencils, still in the original box. It is missing the Fact filled Book of Presidents. I would be interested in selling them if any one is interested. They were distritubted by Pencil-Crafts Sales co, Hoboken, NJ
Ronald Reagan was a cartoonist
I have a set you may purcahse from me please email if you are still looking
I’m 10 years late, but do you still have the presidential pencils? I’d buy them.
14 years late.
Jim, I’m open to selling items mentioned here, but I honestly have no sense of where these pencils now reside. I suspect I don’t have them now, yet don’t recall selling or discarding them.