We recently published a post entitled, “What’s Happened to the Fountain Pen?” So it was fun to discover an article in the New York Times about pencils. Count Anton-Wolfgang von Faber-Castell, 72, presides over the family’s pencil-making empire in Stein, Germany. They’ve been in business since 1761. Click here to read more and to see a 3:22 video tour of a pencil manufacturing plant. (How do they get that lead inside?)
