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Definitely not just US. I'm from Lithuania and these were the pencils we all used [0]. That was around 1992 and later, so could have been a relic from Soviets.
by gdrulia 8y ago
Definitely not just US. I'm from Lithuania and these were the pencils we all used [0]. That was around 1992 and later, so could have been a relic from Soviets.
Only in later years green ones appeared and yellow with black stripes.
[0] - https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/lead-pencil-isolated-white-background-51944149.jpg https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/lead-pencil-isolated-white-b...
- Multicomp 8y agoI spent a year in the baltics, got homeschooled while there. The pencils were a tealish green and tasted much worse than your garden variety Dixon, but wrote much better. It was probably an H grade rather than HB. Pencils in the US stores often come out smudgy to me ever since then...
- int_19h 8y agoI distinctly recall yellow pencils in the USSR. Not that it was the only color, but it was definitely a popular one. Looking it up, apparently this has something to do with pencils being manufactured in early (1920s) USSR by an American entrepreneur: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armand_Hammer#Career https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armand_Hammer#Career https://i.imgur.com/vpObXqU.jpg https://i.imgur.com/vpObXqU.jpg Eventually the Soviet government bought the entire operation from him, and thenceforth it became this: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B4_%D0%BF%D0%B8%D1%88%D1%83%D1%89%D0%B8%D1%85_%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B6%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%B9_%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8_%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%BA%D0%BE_%D0%B8_%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%86%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%82%D0%B8 https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE... And they probably just continued to use yellow, because why not?