I buy and swap pencils

If you have brand name pencils to sell, or to swap I am interested

Buying - I buy brand name writing pencils in all quantities including singles, boxes or entire collections

Swaps - I am working on my catalog and duplicate list... but don't wait, if you would like to swap contact me

Do you collect advertising pencils? I have very large numbers, in many themes and I would be interested in swapping these for brand name writing pencils, possibly even many-for-one.

Pencils of special interest

- any pencils, new or old, from any country outside US and Europe. I have very few Indian, South American or Asia-Pacific pencils and would be very interested in more

- left-handed pencils (where the text runs from cap to tip)

- old pencils

L&C Hardtmuth Packaging

Bought in a junk shop in Prague, it is packaging for German markets,as revealed by the reverse. No hint of date.

Mephisto Pencils

In Prague I bought a number of Hardtmuth Mephisto pencils

Many, but not all, appear in Bob Truby's on-line catalog

Pencils from Prague

A brief holiday in Prague last week was enhanced by a very successful haul of old pencils. Just across Legii Most: a junk shop evidently sourced from house clearances and amongst the normal coins, china furniture and so on - some pencils. Most @5kc each, some @10Kc.  To the evident astonishment of the owner I bought almost all of them, and here they are

Prague Haul

Over the next few weeks I plan to write about some of the pencils I bought in this shop.

About

I started collecting pencils in the 1970s. It was a fairly random choice: I wanted to collect something, pencils were cheap and there are many different ones. Now I have 1000s

To begin with my focus was on places: the pencils were a momento of places we visted. Over time my interests changed and now I collect mainly brand name writing pencils.

This is a blog about collecting and about my collection.