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Late 19th C marketing materials for Koh-i-noor pencils. Source: Leadholder Drafting Museum Inventor, architect and builder, Josef Hardtmuth first charted the path for Koh-i-noor pencils in 1790 when he founded an earthenware factory in Vienna. This...

  Historically: it is believed that the first graphite pencil "yellowed" about 1890, and made ​​it special was - they say, so it will be easier to find on the desktop. But the history of ordinary pencils are much older than you think. At the beginning...

CIA News The company KOH-I-NOOR HARDTMUTH leaves a production plant in Nanjing, China after 11 years and returns to the Czech Republic. read more

After the article several weeks ago from the NY Times about the tools used by famous artists, I fell under the spell of the multi-colored colored pencil used by Milton Glaser. My friend Kirsten confirmed that Mr. Glaser really does use these pencils...

This Consul 222.1 semi-portable typewriter (serial number A49496), along with its wide-carriage partner the 222.2, and the 222.3 and 223.1, were the last of the Consul portable models made, ending a line of impressive machines dating back to 1959. The...