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The following is from and email sent by Flax, a local art supply store in San Mateo. The video is interesting.

 

 

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General Pencil Company - Made in the USA
A family owned business since 1889, General Pencil Company has roots right in our back yard. With offices and a small warehouse in Redwood City, CA, the General Pencil Company has manufactured it's pencils in the same factory in Jersey City, NJ for the past 101 years. Click here, or on the picture above to see a short video featuring their factory, employees, and our own...local...Katie Weissenborn Vanoncini (4th generation owner).
For more on General Pencil's history, click here.
Flax is proud to offer General Pencils products in our store in support of a fellow family owned local business.

 

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"Bad spelling, like bad grammar, is an offense against society."

- - Good Form Letter Writing, by Arthur Wentworth Eaton, B.A. (Harvard);  © 1890

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General's makes some great pencils. My favorite wooden pencil overall is the Semi-Hex HB and the Cedar Pointe is excellent as well, as are the Kimberley line and the Layout. Good stuff.

Here to help when I know, learn when I don't, and pass on the information to anyone I can :)

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Thanks for sharing the video. The General's Test Scoring 580 is one of my most frequently used pencils. I dig it!

"No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead. Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study, and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think." -J.S. Mill, On Liberty

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