$55.55 a pencil - The Blackwing 602

No, I am not kidding.

If there ever was a pencil that was appreciate, it was this. I have a terrible urge to write with one of these.

I have been late to the party, but there is nothing like a legal pad, and a pencil, to get your thoughts flowing. I also hate yellow pencils. Which brings us to why pencils are mostly yellow, not counting the “Nataraj” and “Pinky” pencils I grew up on. Pencils are mostly yellow because that is the color associated (or previously associated) with royalty in China, and that’s where most of the pencils came from in the early days.

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2 Responses to “$55.55 a pencil - The Blackwing 602”

  1. August 18th, 2007 | 5:17 pm

    I buy Mirado Black Warriors, just because I hate yellow pencils as well. And lol @ the frog in the eBay listing.

  2. September 26th, 2007 | 10:26 pm

    […] the article I wrote about the BlackWing 602 pencil earlier? Well, I was curious to see how the sale ended, and popped into ebay. Then I […]

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