A.W. FABER - CASTELL 9004 FLAT PENCIL
A.W. FABER 카스텔 9004 연필
I love Castell pencils - they are undoubtedly one of the best pencils that have existed on the Earth.
As I believe so, I placed quite a high importance in collecting Castell pencils.
Mostly my collection is focused on Castell 9000 pencils with variations according to the time and some limited edition versions.
Although we are now usually aware of Castell 9000 pencils, most people don't know there existed numerous family members in the Castell kingdom.
It's no wonder since most of them were extinct and even some few survivors are not that popular as Castell 9000 pencils.
For instance, did you know there are Castell pencils like 9609 or 9610 color indelible pencils for documents?
I'm preety sure most people never heard of them.
Some variations still existed in the past.
There were some lovely Castell pencils with diverse end pieces, Castell pocket pencils, and Castell ink pencil, etc.
This figure was from 1909 and when the Castell pencils lost diversity is beyond my knowledge.
To return to our muttons, today's protagonist is Castell 9004 long and flat pencil.
Its brother, Castell 9003, was the pencil with the same length but in the oval shape.
It was the longer version of the Castell pocket pencil.
A.W. FABER "CASTELL"
It's impressive there are huge spaces between the words and the castle symbols.
Castell pocket pencils didn't have enough space to do this physically.
*THE FINEST AND BEST DRAWING PENCIL*
As I have mentioned in some posts, including the earliest model of Castell 9000, this notaion was used for the very earliest models.
Since it doesn't have a balance symbol, it must have been produced between 1905 and 1914.
This backside remains one curiosity.
In the catalog of 1909, there were more letters!
The bad resolution hinders our reading, but it seems to be HB = blah blah.
I think the answer can be found here: HB = weich (mittel) schwarz, which means "soft (medium) black."
As a matter of fact, some old Castell pencils had this kind of notations.
Hence the only last problem is which one was earlier between these two notations.
The notations like "HB = ..." and "B = ..." were even used together with the balance symbol, which means were used even after 1914.
Also, the earliest Castell pencils I have don't have such notation.
Therefore, I guess the notation with "HB = ..." appeared later, I might be wrong nevertheless.
The tip of the pencil is sharpend in a wavy way.
What was the role of this flat pencil?
To my knowledge, flat pencils are usually carpenter pencils.
This flat pencil has a circular lead.
Some carpenter flat pencils have a rectangular lead following their design.
I mean a real "rectangular," not a "square."
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