Watergate Warrior

[From All the President’s Men (dir. Alan J. Pakula, 1976). Click for a much larger pencil.]

Here’s Dustin Hoffman as Carl Bernstein. In his hand, a Mirado Black Warrior. Here, from pencil talk, is a 2008 post about the Paper Mate version of the Black Warrior, a pencil first produced by the Eagle Pencil Company and later by Berol and Sanford.

That the Mirado Black Warrior is still available in 2025 seems odd, as the Mirado itself (a yellow pencil) was declared defunct by Newell (Paper Mate’s owner) in 2020. Odder still that Mirados, too, are sill available (at Amazon, anyway), though they’re no longer listed on Paper Mate’s page for pencils. Paper Mate does offer two yellow pencils with Mirado-style ferrules, but without the Mirado name.

Related reading
All OCA Mirado posts (One with the pianist Fred Hersch and a Black Warrior)