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Koh-I-Noor 5311 clip
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Koh-I-Noor Hardtmuth 5311 Clutch Pencil Review

29 June 2015 By ian

The Koh-I-Noor Hardtmuth 5311 is a 5.6mm clutch pencil. It costs about £13 in the UK. I picked this one up second-hand from eBay. It’s quite a heavy pencil. I suspect it’s made from brass but I can’t be sure. It’s built like a tank. You will never need to worry about breaking it. The […]

Koh-I-Noor Toison D'Or Clutch Pencil 2mm 5900 sketch
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Koh-I-Noor Toison D’Or Clutch Pencil 2mm 5900 review and a sketch

7 March 2014 By ian

This is the catchily named Koh-I-Noor Toison D’Or Clutch Pencil 2mm 5900. Toison D’Or means Golden Fleece and that means that this is a posh pencil (at a very reasonable price). Toison D’Or is French; Koh-I-Noor is Persian(?) for Mountain of Light (it’s a diamond) and the company is Czech. Linguistically speaking this pencil is […]