Eberhard Faber IV, the final president and CEO of the Eberhard Faber pencil company, passed away in the fall of 2022. The family obituary is here. A Princeton Alumni article is here.
Eberhard Faber was generous with our own community, sharing insights with Sean Malone. Two of my favourite posts are The House That Faber Built and A Conversation With Eberhard Faber IV.
This isn’t current news, but it was still unknown to me and I haven’t seen anything in any stationery or pencil forum about Mr. Faber’s passing. I was wondering if this post is “too late”, but someone who has thought and written about the subject says no. I also felt that others would want to know.