Articles
Please note: the articles below are protected by copyright.
- A Brief History of Atlas Pencil Company, England
- A Review of Pop-A-Point Pencils
- Some History of the EPCON Pencil, by Irv Arons
- In Honor of the No. 2 Pencil, by Marilyn Brackney
- My Pencil Made Me Well, by Anjum Wasim Dar
- Sanford Corp. Pencil Factory Tour
- Early American Pencils
- Einstein's Relativity Theory Proven with the 'Lead' of a Pencil from Azom.com
- The Biggest Penmaker You Never Heard Of... by L. Michael Fultz
- Concord's Sharp Pencil Makers Write Themselves into History, by Deborah Bier
- A Pencil is a Gardener's Best Friend, by Marion Owen, tells about another use for pencils.
- The Pencil Hardness Test, by Mac Simmons. A different use for pencils!
- Thoreau's Pencils, by John H. Lienhard, from The Engines of Ingenuity series. Text and audio.
- The Copying Pencil: Composition, History, and Conservation Implications, by Liz Dube, Head, Preservation Department,
The University of Notre Dame Libraries
- Pencil Making in Iran, by Mansour Assim of Medad Iran Co.
- My Passion - Pencils, by Abdullah Ismail of Venus Pencil Co. (Pakistan) Also, read a few excerpts from Mr. Ismail's new book, "Pencil Pages".
- What's That Stuff? - Pencils & Pencil Lead, from Chemical & Engineering News
- A Letter from Ms. Inderpreet Bindra, telling of her pursuit of a World Record in pencil collecting
- Pencil Poems by Doris B. Armstrong
- The Humble Pencil, by Frank Maddlone, a writer for FoxPop
- An excellent 'History of the Lead Pencil' from the Early Office Museum
- Draftsman's Lead Holders - a short 'lecture' by Dennis Smith
- A History of the Thoreau pencil-making business
- Whatever happened to the Blackwing 602?
- Alice Newcombe's Physics Project, determining the thickness of a pencil line drawn on paper using an electrical test method. This is a MS Word document (13 pages)
- Stephen Ladyansky's followup to the above, determining the thickness of a pencil line by geometrical means (MS Word document)
- The Faber-Castell Story
by David Schummy - a chronology of Faber-Castell
- A Short Essay on Pencil Collecting
by Anthony Polise
- Pencil Pushers prevail in age of PC
by Gail Rippey. This article appeared in the Lancaster, PA Sunday News, June 13, 1999
- Pencil Thief - A poem
I've lost the author's name, but he did give me permission to reproduce this
- Once Upon a Pencil...
by Michael J. Grace, this article appeared in a collectors publication in the UK
- The 1927 Autopoint Catalog, and other pencil research, provided by Bob Bolin
- Pencil Lengtheners?
by Doug Martin
- Lead Down the Cedar Path, The Tale of the Pencil
by Zora Pinney
- The 'Time Share Pencil'
an interesting story by Jack Turner
- A Collector's Philosophy - and Cataloging Techniques
by Michael J. Grace
- The Pencil in Japan
by Gene Fornario
- Pencil Physiognomy
by Steve A.
- Carpenter's Pencils
by Doug Martin
- Pencil Hardness Designations
by Doug Martin
- How Pencils are Made
A brief pictorial explanation
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Books/Publications
- Pencil Pages, by Abdullah Ismail. A history of the pencil industry around the world, with articles by numerous authors, anecdotes, and a wealth of information. Information and excerpts.
- Writing Antiques, by George Mell
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- The Pencil: a history of design and circumstance, Henry Petroski. The undisputable authoritative work on the origins and history of the pencil. Petroski traces the development of the pencil from the earliest times to the present, sparing no detail concerning every aspect of pencil design and character. This book is a 'must read' for every serious pencil collector.
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- Anything That's Peaceful © 1964 Leonard E. Read
This book contains a series of short story essays promoting Read's free-market economic philosophy. One chapter is "Only God Can Make a Tree - or a Pencil", in which a pencil (a Mongol 482) traces its ancestry.
- Making Pencils, Ruth Thomson, 1987
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- The Secret Life of School Supplies, Vicki Cobb, 1981
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- Collecting Writing Instruments, Dietmar Deyer. Originally published in Germany, this book is mostly about pens, but has some good information about pencils as well.
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- Victorian Pencils: Tools to Jewels, Deborah Crosby, 1998
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- Penkala Writing Instruments, by Miroslav Tischler
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