Page Text: October 31, 2021 at 8:41 am
The end of a venerable name in North American pencils.
When I was a kid, and the Mongol was my family’s pencil of choice, I had no idea that “Mongol” was anything more than the name of a pencil. It just seemed like a cool, unusual name.
October 31, 2021 at 9:45 am
What a shame – even moreso given the Mirado was discontinued last year .
Does that leave the Dixon Ticonderoga as the last ubiquitous classic American pencil in production? Musgrave and General still make pencils but as far as I can tell, they didn’t have the ubiquity the Mirado, Mongol, and Ticonderoga do/did.
The Mongol was never sold here in the UK as far as I know. I don’t even know if Eberhard Faber had any market presence here. I’ve never seen one here organically across the five decades I’ve been using pencils; the pencil market mostly consisted of Staedtler, Faber-Castell, and Derwent.
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