FABER-CASTELL celebrates its 250 years as one of the oldest industrial companies in the world, in the course of its history it has repeatedly overcome periods of uncertainty and recession by "Doing ordinary things extraordinary well."
The World's most expensive pencil reveals its full splendour in combination with the natural hue of the pocket pencil. The magnum-sized cap made of solid white gold is crowned by 3 fine-quality diamonds. These are 0.05 to 0.06 carats in size and unusually brilliant.
This unusual object was found among the rafters of a 17th-century house in the course of renovations. A carpenter had evidently left it there by mistake, and it had probably remained unnoticed for 3 centuries. The pencil is made of two pieces of lime (linden) wood, with a piece of pure graphite sandwiched between them, and bears signs of use that confirm its great age. The oldest surviving example of a wood-cased pencil anywhere in the world, it is now preserved in the Faber-Castell archive.
The smallest pencil in the world is 17.5mm short and about 3mm thin. Count von Faber-Castell had this miniature pencil (a tenth as long as normal) specially made from North America spruce as an appropriate gift on the occasion of the unveiling of the world's largest pencil. The pencils have a real graphite lead 0.5mm in diameter, but it the owners want to use them for writing, they will probably need a pair of tweezers.
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