To: ShadowDancer
By the way, does anyone else remember Venus Paradise coloring pencils? At some point they changed the brand, and the pencils never colored brightly after that. The lead was too hard.
34 posted on
04/10/2008 5:24:44 PM PDT by
I still care
("Remember... for it is the doom of men that they forget" - Merlin, from Excalibur)
To: I still care
Nope. Don’t remember those. I remember faber-castell, koh-i-nor, and prang.
39 posted on
04/10/2008 5:34:11 PM PDT by
mamelukesabre
(Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?)
To: I still care
They cut way back on the lead on account of the lead scares that were going around. They replaced it with some kind of hard wax.
All of the lead/carbon based coloring pencil makers began making low and lead free lines, because schools began specifying what kind of low lead and lead free coloring pencils to buy, I guess because some kids couldn't stop eating them and got sick. If you wanted the good ones you had to go to the art and craft stores to get them.
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