08-04-2007, 10:24 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: MA/RI
Posts: 2,411
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Originally Posted by afterhours
new AH pencil- not sure who to pay hommage to, but i'll try...The first mass-produced pencils were made in Nuremberg, Germany in 1662. Until the war with England cut off imports, pencils used in America came from overseas. (William CS Monroe, a cabinetmaker in Concord, Massachusetts, made the first American wood pencils in 1812.) Benjamin Franklin advertised pencils for sale in his Pennsylvania Gazette in 1729. George Washington used a three-inch pencil when he surveyed the Ohio Territory in 1762.
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