More amazing, beautiful, train-theme pencils from Tombow. I was lucky enough to find a source for the original set of train pencil boxes, numbers one through four. We have previously seen boxes five through eight.
Three years ago, I associated novelty pencils with the lowest level of pencil making. How wrong I was! Firms such as Tombow do make pencils like these to the highest standards in the industry. The design and details are just amazing.
Imagine a pencil of this calibre being given out by a dentist, realtor, or even at the train station, instead of the third-rate ballpoints and pencils we usually see.
beautiful details shown by your wonderful photography. thank you for sharing what i am not able to see in person!
Hear! Hear!
Thanks for sharing these with us! I’m glad you found them and I hope you acquire all of the pencils in this line. They are truly special. I suppose it would be churlish to ask how they write:>).
I’ve never seen these before, very cool! ;-)
Beautiful pencils in beautiful boxes – amazing! I wonder if something like this is even taken into consideration by those who finally decide to order 1000+ cheesy custom-printed ballpoints …
So far I have only seen two kinds of pencils with a rounded square cross-section, namely these train pencils and the Pantone Graphite. Is there any indication that both come from the same manufacturer?
Thank you for the comments.
Gunther, I suspect it isn’t widely known that products like this exist. I’m not sure where one would even start in trying to commission a pencil like this.
While the train pencil is made by Tombow, I don’t know anything about the provenance of the Pantone pencil. The former Colleen pencil company made some rounded square pencils as well.
It knew there was such a pencil by your blog.
It came for me to want it, and all kinds were ordered immediately.
Kossy, I have seen many interesting pencils at your blog!
And please leave a few for the rest of us! :-)
On this occasion: Kossy, I enjoy your blog as well – it is very interesting! May I ask what pencil extender is the first one shown in the last photo in this post? The black and white barrel is much appealing.
This is Ecstendar called mimikku.
Only store-based sales in gojuon of Tokyo are being handled now.
http://www.gojuon.com/
Shipping within Japan must be very fast! Kossy shows the entire set here!
Thank you for the link, Kossy!
(And there will be more train pencils at pencil talk in the future.)
Thank you for the information, Kossy!