Pencils

__**Pencils**__ QUESTION AND ANSWER:  Around what year did they start painting pencils? ** What year did they start making pencils?** [|Www.pencils.com] DESCRIPTION: WHAT DO PENCILS LOOK LIKE? Early American pencils were made from Red Ceder, a strong, splinter-resistant wood, that grew in Tennessee and other parts of the southeastern United States. Many manufacturers started painting pencils yellow and stamping them with brand names in the early 1890s. If you measure a number 2 pencil, not sharpened, should come out to be 19 centimeters long. There have been few changes since then. [|Www.pencils.com] CHRONOLOGY: 1662 - The oldest known wood-cased pencil was made in Nuremberg, Germany. 1812 - William Monroe, a concord, Massachusetts cabinet maker, is credited for making America's first wood pencil. 1820s-50s - There were several small pencil makers in Boston. 1847 - Dixon set up a new factory, just outside New York City that used graphite to manufacturer containers for melting metals, polish, and pencils. 1872 - The American Lead Pencil CO. and the Joseph Dixon Crucible CO. started making lead pencils in 1865 and 1872. 1890 - Many manufacturers started painting pencils yellow and stamping them with brand names. [|www.pencils.com]
 * By the 1890s, many manufacturers started painting pencils and stamping them with brand names.
 * **The oldest known wood-cased pencil was made in Nuremberg, Germany in 1662.**

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