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Speedball is a US manufacturing company of stationery and art products, based in Statesville, North Carolina.The company was originally established as the "C. Howard Hunt Pen Company" in 1899, [4] to manufacture dip pens.
The writing instrument, which was called the "Onoto Patent Self-filling Pen", also had a patented "plunger filler" system that drew ink into the pen using a vacuum created by the down-stroke of a piston. All pens were handmade in Bunhill Row, London. Very quickly Onoto pens became popular in Great Britain and internationally.
Parker Duofold desk set, 1930 Parker Jotter pen. In 1954, Parker released the Parker Jotter ballpoint [9] pen with its original nylon body and inverted "V" clip. The Jotter would go on to sell over 750 million units during its history. In 1955, the company introduced its Liquid Lead pencil, which used liquid graphite to write like a pen.
Derwent colour pencils have traditionally been sold in tins of 12, 24, 36 and 72 different colours. They are also available in a range of wooden presentation boxes or sets of six which are intended to be trial packs. Derwent's oldest line of colour pencils, Artist, were expanded from a range of 24 to 72 in 1939 and from 72 colours to 120 in 1996.
Aaron Bartholmey started a pencil collection after a Christmas gift from his first-grade teacher. Three decades later, he has a Guinness World Record. This Iowan has collected pencils for 30 years.
Venus pencils became even more popular after the First World War, which had interrupted the supply of pencil from German companies. In high school many people who used Venus brand pencils saw their slogan "Venus Beats All " which oddly was a reference to the ancient Roman dice game in which the "Venus Roll" was the best possible roll.
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