Vintage work crew photos

**PJs** · Nov 24, 2018, 12:35 PM

Nice old photos for the Muskgrave Pencil Company in Shelbyville TN. This was on google images not sure I should post but like the image.

WWII vintage

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~PJ

**Toolmaker51** · Nov 24, 2018, 04:04 PM

Originally Posted by PJs

Nice old photos for the Muskgrave Pencil Company in Shelbyville TN. This was on google images not sure I should post but like the image.

WWII vintage

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~PJ

TOO LATE; I HIT IT RIGHT AWAY. Pictures are good, but for me real impact is essay by what is likely a Musgrave descendant, definitely not some takeover hooligan. The original proprietor saw opportunity and seized them, or suspended old work for a long lived company. That should guarantee protection from 2nd rate imports.

**Beserkleyboy** · Nov 24, 2018, 06:21 PM

...I'm an old pencil tragic...Dixon Ticonderoga for me. #s 2,2.5, and 3 do the trick. First got into them writing triplicate carbon invoices (remember those?) in the family timber yard in Calif in the 60's. Now I have to order online and pay stupid postage...and the Mexican build quality is a bit hit and miss these days, leads not concentric to outer makes for an unbalanced point. Just the other week, the grandson (12) asked me, 'Grampy, how come you use so many pencils?'...I sent him home with a few and a sharpener..cheers guys

Jim

**hemmjo** · Nov 25, 2018, 04:25 AM

It is unfortunate to see pencils going the way of the typewriter. Kids are not even taught how to write in school anymore.

**Beserkleyboy** · Nov 25, 2018, 04:33 AM

Too true! Campbell (grandson) likes his pencils with erasers and has been showing them off at school.. the teacher was confused, but then decided he was quite right and gave a lesson about writing instruments. So hope is not lost! At least not in in Young, NSW (pop 12,000). Cheers
Jim