[Robert Bice as a police dispatcher. From The Racket (dir. John Cromwell, 1951). Click for a larger view.]
It looks like — is it? Hard to tell. Hit Pause. Look closely. Yes, it’s a Mongol pencil. The ferrule is the giveaway: dark, shiny, dark. Click for a larger view and you, too, can be sure.
I rediscovered the Eberhard Faber Mongol, the pencil of my childhood, in the early 1990s, after I stopped smoking cigarettes and became an ever more dedicated stationery fiend. I like Mongols, on my desk or in the movies. And yes, I also noticed the cigarette in the dispatcher’s hand.
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Tuesday, January 1, 2019
A Mongol sighting
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Shiny dark green ferrule. I have a few Mongol stubs in my used pencils box, complete with test-anxiety teeth-marks. Thank you for the memory.
If it’s a Mongol, I think it’s going to be black and gold. Maybe it’s a really old one? (You know, the way old black fabric begins to look greenish.)
I wasn’t kidding about the black looking green. But I just realized: you must be thinking of the beautiful green of the Dixon Ticonderoga.
Maybe so, Michael. I'll have to find my box of stubs to check it out! The longer I type, the more I think you are right. Still, it will be fun to visit with my stubs...provided I can find them.
Maybe there’ll be a Mongol or two too. :)
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