Vanishing pencils
From Lou Grant: “How’s this for an arresting opening line: ‘Where have all the pencils gone?’”
HB, or no. 2
From Lou Grant. “He was wigged out. He kept threatening me with a pencil.”
WJM Mongols
Mongol pencils on The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
Mabel’s pencil
A screenshot from “True Crime,” the first episode of the new Hulu series Only Murders in the Building. I’m pretty sure it’s a Tombow Mono-R.
Naked City Mongol
One more pencil.
A Father Knows Best pencil sharpener
James Anderson (Robert Young) installs a necessary household tool.
Masonic Ticonderoga
A Dixon Ticonderoga in a Perry Mason episode.
Lassie Ticonderoga
In a farmhouse just outside Calverton, the pencil of choice is the Dixon Ticonderoga.
Ticonderoga, Ticonderoga, Ticonderoga
Pencils of The Dick Van Dyke Show.
Star Trek paper and pencils
Ancient technology of the future.
Opie Taylor, Mongol user
It’s a fine pencil for a young ’un, mighty fine.
Naked City Mongol
Martin Sheen as a soda jerk, writing with a Mongol.
A Naked City Mongol
Yes, there are all kinds of ways to enjoy television. This post involves a highly specific application of the studies-in-material-culture approach.
Naked City Mongol
The pencil’s identity is obvious. But do you recognize the actress?
Molly Dodd, Mongol user
Notice that even in a videotaped-from-TV blur, the Mongol’s ferrule is immediately recognizable.