As mentioned last week, futural kindly sent pencil talk some other pencils in addition to the Mongols. Let’s take a look!
First, we have what appear to be more Mongols – except – the top pencil uses slightly different fonts than the Eberhard Faber Colombia Mongols, and is sold in unmarked packaging. Is it a fake? The second is imprinted “Made in Phil.” – a Philippines (Amspec presumably) Mongol that crossed the Pacific to Colombia.
The Mongol style is widely emulated in Colombia. Take a look at these pencils:
The Pointer (from China) is marked “Woodclinched” just like an Eberhard Faber pencil:
And the GEMA Chequeo red pencil, sporting a Mongol style ferrule. Here it is seen with a red Papermate Colombia Colorchek. (The Colorchek came to me via Argentina, thanks to blog reader dasmarians.)
Newell Rubbermaid also has a presence. The “Made in Columbia” PaperMate Mirado:
Unfortunately, yet another closed pencil plant. The ones marked “Colombia” are presumably older stock.
A familiar name, Eagle:
A Chinese manufactured Zeppelin whose ferrule is made to resemble a Venus Velvet:
Kores – a new name to me, yet a search reveals it to be an Austrian firm dating from 1887! This pencil was manufactured in Mexico.
Finally, a well known name, though not necessarily for woodcase pencils:
My sincere thanks to futural for kindly sending a number of really interesting pencils this way. So far, I’ve sharpened a Mirado, and am appreciating it very much.
Interestingly, as with “Blackwing”, the trademark for “woodclinched” has also lapsed (though I’m not certain that anyone checked before using it on the Pointer).
Great post! I have some Mexican Mirados that are triangular and have ferrules like these. Unlike the ones we can buy in the US (and elsewhere?) with the crimped ferrules, the Mexican and Colombian varieties seem to be glued (?) on — makes for a second-take when you first look at that smooth metal.
Fascinating. I am intrigued by the very name of Zeppelin pencils as well as by those Pelikans! (I have never seen Pelikan no. 2 yellow pencils in Germany.)
The bottom pencil in the 2nd picture has EE rather than EF! What is this about?
All, thank you for the comments.
Adair, given that Pelikan purchased Herlitz about two years ago – I keep expecting a new pencil line, but it hasn’t appeared.
Vikram, good catch. I have no idea. Hmmm.
I found your site (very interesting!) while trying to satisfy a nostalgic curiosity. I remember using pencils in elementary school (c. late 1980s) that were striped (vertically) yellow and black. Would you happen to know who manufactured/es those? I know staedtler has some but that’s not the brand or look I remember. Any help with this (somewhat bizarre) search would be appreciated, thanks!