Blades, pencils and Christmas tree ornaments
Just a few things I want to mention. I think there was something else I wanted to add, but I forgot…
Pollux spare blades
Thanks to Gunther from the Lexikaliker blog I got a set of spare blades for my Pollux when I met him last month at Insights X. Thank you!
Royal Mail’s 17th century pencil
Royal Mail’s Great Fire of London Special Stamps feature a 17th century pencil. I don’t have the stamp, but I have the postcard with the same picture, so I thought I show you this pencil (the red one on the left), together with a similar pencil – the one from Staedtler’s historic pencil kit. Petroski (1989, p. 47)1 writes that by 1610 black lead was used by artists and others to fit into their wooden pencil cases ..so a pencil being used in the planning of the reconstruction of London in 1666 seems realistic.
Kaweco Christmas Tree Ornament
You might have already seen this on Bleistift’s Facebook page: There’s a Kaweco Christmas Tree Ornament.
The photo of the Kaweco Tree Ornament has been taken from the Massdrop offer of this product. I believe that showing the photo in this blog post falls under “fair dealing” as described by the UK Copyright service.
- Petroski, H. (1989) The Pencil [↩]