At Lexikaliker, Gunther has added more red and blue, in the form of a display card holding a dozen Venus Postal pencils. Here is Google Translate’s version. See also an earlier Lexikaliker post about the uses of red and blue pencils, also available in a Google Translate version.
The Old Farmer’s Almanac says that back in the day “mail was coded with red or blue for routing purposes.” And which color meant what? I wish I knew.
All this red and blue makes me think of a origin story I wrote about a pencil with an unlikely name: National’s “Fuse-Tex” Skytint 516 Red & Blue. Yes, really.
Wednesday, June 12, 2019
More red and blue
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
I'm still looking for the Blue and reds with the white rings on them. That's what I recall from teacher's school desk.
ReplyDeleteI know the kind you mean — something like this. But the Mallard Pencil Co. seems a little obscure. I remember them as Pedigree, made by Empire.
ReplyDeleteI think I remember having a few of these that I picked up from my grandfather's wood shop, but they were German. I think they were an older version of these:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.pica-marker.com/en/pen/pica-classic-559-double-red-blue-one
Wow — they look like jumbo pencils, and they mark non-paper surfaces.
ReplyDeleteMallard Pencil. That's the ticket. I love the one that you can mark on a metal. Like a china marker.
ReplyDelete