Lining Up The Lead

Below, an old photo of my still-growing collection of various pencils, vintage and new.

The Wolff’s Royal Sovereign tin is nostalgic, as it hails from Pontyclun, South Wales, near where I was born.

Since I lined up this grouping for a shot some time ago, I've added a few more:

1. Blackwings (and a couple of 'natural' Blackwings with their powerful scent of cedar),

2. Faber Castells;

3. A vintage intact-pencil from Art Scott's Television, Paints, and Appliances Shop in Ridgetown, Oregon (Dial: OR. 4-5511);

4. A vintage Eberhard Faber Elementary No. 6370;

5. A Field Notes Brand Bonded Lead No. 2; and just recently,

6. A vintage Wolff's Royal Sovereign Wolff's Carbon BBB 838, Made in Great Britain intact pencil. I was quite thrilled to find one of these, inasmuch as I have the Wolff's tin. I lost out on a bid about a year ago for a complete vintage set of these pencils in a mint-condition tin.

I still kick myself.

Vintage Pencils and Tins.