Pencils, eh
A virtual museum of the golden age of the Canadian pencil industry.
Verithin vs. ThinexColored pencils are made for a variety of purposes. School pencils, art pencils and pencils for the office. In the 1950s, colored pencils would have been found on the desks of engineers, architects, advertisers and accountants. Colored pencils marketed for the office were often hexagonal instead of round. They had hard thin cores designed for long wear and durability. In Canada, popular pencils in this category were the Eagle Verithin and Dixon Thinex. These two pencils were very similar and direct competitors. A sad and sorry life...The vintage ink blotters shown below feature advertisements for Verithin and Thinex pencils. They paint a sad picture of the life of the average 1950s businessman. Working in Dickensian conditions... sitting at a desk all day tediously drawing thin red checkmarks in a drafty warehouse with broken windows and a leaky roof. Writing with a stub of a pencil and hoping that the rain doesn't ruin your days work.
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Tina Koyama
2/28/2021 02:51:15 am
I have a few US-made Dixon Thinex but did not know they were also made in Canada. Mine have yellow stripes on the end just like the ones in the ad. I believe Bobby Truby set out to see if a Verithin really could make 4,134 checkmarks.
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