Dating from 2001, here’s the front page of a 4 page A4 brochure detailing the pencils, coloured pencils and stick ballpoints they made in Australia back then.
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Bye Bye Skippy
Many of you will have read elsewhere of the recent closure of Staedtler Australia’s manufacturing operation. They didn’t make any mechanical pencils, but I always liked to see “Australia” on the woodcase pencils in the local shops. It made a welcome change from the usual other countries like China, Indonesia, etc. So, with that in mind I thought I should say “Farewell, Skippy. I’ll miss you” especially to the Staedtler Tradition, formerly proudly Made in Australia.
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I like the arrangement of the varying length pencils to form the shape of Australia - and the rendition of Tasmania is quite clever.
Technology is slowly killing the early industries. One day, maybe even paper will be an antique......
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