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30 Tuesday Oct 2018

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From the new Netflix documentary Quincy, a young Quincy Jones can be seen using an Eberhard Faber Blackwing 602.

Thanks to Harry for the tip!

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Blackwings For Daisy

24 Wednesday Oct 2018

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Composer Oliver Wallace (1887-1963) is seen using an Eberhard Faber Blackwing in a Disney film from 1956. His task is to compose a song for Daisy Duck. You can just about see the pencil’s logo here:

Meanwhile, animator Ollie Johnston (1912-2008) is putting the finishing touches on Donald Duck:

However, Donald seems to take exception at this:

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Colonel Klink’s Blackwing

14 Wednesday Feb 2018

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It seems Hogan wasn’t the only colonel at Stalag 13 who used Eberhard Faber Blackwing pencils.

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And it looks like there were at least four more ready to go in his pencil pot:

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Given that they were around on set, I suppose now the hunt is on to see how many cast members can be found holding a Blackwing.

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Thanks again to reader Dan for the tip!

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Subtle Changes

16 Tuesday Jan 2018

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One of the most notable changes in the design of the Eberhard Faber Blackwing was when the company stopped painting the black band around the neck of the clamp eraser ferrule. They were still being painted after the company’s move to Wilkes-Barre in 1956/57 but I have yet to determine the exact year this change occurred. It seems that it can be narrowed-down to the same time of this packaging style, but it wasn’t only the black band that changed.

The boxes pictured above (older on top, newer on the bottom) are nearly identical: the main difference is the addition of the PMA logo in the lower-right. But that’s not all.

The older box closes by way of an elongated flap, whereas the newer box has a shorter flap that tucks into the top of the box:

The printing on the flaps themselves remained the same:

It was the older box, however, that was used for the banded pencils. The newer, PMS-stamped box, was for the non-banded pencils.

I’ve always thought that the loss of the black band had everything to do with cost, but it’s interesting that the PMA approval is found on the packaging used for the non-banded pencils — in other words, did the PMA approval force the issue?

I’m currently unfamiliar with what was needed to earn PMA approval back then but I’m beginning to wonder if there wasn’t something about the paint used by the Eberhard Faber Company for the black band that was a concern. Then, faced with having to research an alternative, the company decided to discontinue the practice altogether.

Apart from the black band the pencils are identical (to the eyes at least), and there was only a slight update to the functionality of the box. Rather than being the result of inspiration though, the changes are starting to seem more like an accommodation.

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Laurie Spiegel’s Blackwing

02 Tuesday Jan 2018

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Timeliness and timelessness.

Photo by Laurie Spiegel (Click for her Instagram)

There are two reasons why I can’t help thinking of a rocket shooting past a star when I look at this photo. First, the obvious: the pencil and clamp ferrule kind of look like a rocket, and the flash (or reflected lamp) looks like a bright star.

The other reason? Because this Blackwing belongs to composer Laurie Spiegel, whose piece Harmonices Mundi (The Harmony of the World) is, at this very moment, on two Golden Records speeding toward interstellar space aboard Voyager I and Voyager II.

It might just be me, but there is something about this photograph that is unimaginably hopeful.

Thanks to Laurie for sharing this photo, and for all the other gifts she’s given us.

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2018

31 Sunday Dec 2017

Posted by Sean in History

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Happy New Year, everyone. Thanks to all of those who submitted sightings this year, shared stories, asked questions, or just came by to look around.

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