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This article has been edited and included in The Leadhead's Pencil Blog Volume 4; copies are available print on demand through Amazon  h...

This article has been edited and included in The Leadhead's Pencil Blog Volume 4; copies are available print on demand through Amazon  h...

Condition is everything, some will say. Pass on an example with issues and wait for a clean one – so goes the conventional widsom. "T...

I’ve had this one for a couple of years, with no leads (that’s "leeeds," not the stuff you put in the thing) to date: The mec...

I didn’t buy everything I liked at Andy Beliveau’s table in Philly that I wanted to, for two reasons. First, I couldn’t afford to. Second, s...

In general, between Joe, Mike and I, we were pretty successful in obtaining the key pencils we wanted from Tanya Hile’s listings. But when i...

There's a lot of plastics that have been nicknamed "snakeskin" or "lizard skin" by collectors.  But Eberhard Faber t...

Remember my tired little Faber Pony Clip?  Well, at the Scott Antique Market in February, I finally found one that was intact - in fact mint...

One of the questions Paul Erano asked me during my recent interview for the Pennant magazine was about how pencil collectors are different f...