Thanks to a recent
E-bay auction, I have just added a box of
Dixon's Typhonite ELDORADO 5B Pencils to my vintage pencils collection.
The pencils showed some
dust build up on their unfinished ends, and a few sported faint lengthwise cracks under their yellow coating after decades in storage. Yet they still sharpened and worked as well as new pencils (and probably better than your average run of the mill no name pencil).
Their graphics-rich and sturdy cardboard packaging reflect the importance that drafting and drawing pencils were accorded in the past century as reliable tools in the everyday lives of artists and draftmen.
This
5B pencil produces a nice tonal range with little effort. If you stumble upon some of these
Dixon's ELDORADO pencils from the 1930s and 1940s, I would definitely recommend picking them up and actually using them. Additional related pictures in
Flickr photostream:
photo 1,
photo 2,
photo 3,
photo 4,
photo 5, &
photo 6.
Thanks to a recent E-bay auction, I have just added a box of Dixon's Typhonite ELDORADO 5B Pencils to my vintage pencils collection.
The pencils showed some dust build up on their unfinished ends, and a few sported faint lengthwise cracks under their yellow coating after decades in storage. Yet they still sharpened and worked as well as new pencils (and probably better than your average run of the mill no name pencil).
Their graphics-rich and sturdy cardboard packaging reflect the importance that drafting and drawing pencils were accorded in the past century as reliable tools in the everyday lives of artists and draftmen.
This 5B pencil produces a nice tonal range with little effort. If you stumble upon some of these Dixon's ELDORADO pencils from the 1930s and 1940s, I would definitely recommend picking them up and actually using them. Additional related pictures in Flickr photostream: photo 1, photo 2, photo 3, photo 4, photo 5, & photo 6.
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