Venus All Surface 1564 Red

A wood cased pencil that was made to write on a variety of surfaces such as paper, glass, plastic, and metal. Different than a grease pencil, they are not wrapped in paper and can be sharpened in a regular pencil sharpener.

Venus 3800 Drawing Pencil

These high-quality drawing pencils were marketed to artists and architects and made with the "colloidal process".  They were painted in the distinctive Venus crackled coat. The 3800 Venus drawing pencils were untipped and made in 17 degrees (6B to 9H). Venus 3820 pencils had tips and erasers and were made in 11 degrees. Venus 3828 pencils had an oversize tip and eraser and were made in 8 degrees.

This older pencil has "Venus" stamped in quotes and gold imprint.

Venus Velvet Drawing 6880

Venus Handy-Check

This is a red factory-sharpened checking pencil.

Venus Rex 6328 Red Blue Checking Pencil

This is a typical checking pencil that has red on one end (to mark mistakes and to circle or strike errors) and blue on the other end (to make notations, comments, or insertions).