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GENERAL PENCIL COMPANY ...The oldest pencil company in the U.S.A.!   please call our toll-free order line for assistance: (800) 861-3729 but note: we're always running around here at warp speed helping customers...if for some reason the line is busy, just be patient and keep on trying...or you can simply email us your phone number, and we will be glad to call you back to take your order! most orders ship via U.S. priority mail for $10.45! click here for our freight & return policy  Kimberly Premium Graphite, Artist Quality Drawing Pencil  item # 525 + grade: 9xxB, 8B,6B,4B,2B,B,HB,H,F,2H,4H,6H  sale: $6.99/dz.     General's #557 charcoal pencils    item # 557 + grade: HB, 2B, 4B, 6B, or white charcoal (#558)  sale: $11.99/dz.     #588 Sketch & Wash  sale: $8.99/dz.     peel & sketch charcoal #5632T  available in 2B 4B and 6B: $8.99/dz.     Kimberly Graphite Sticks #986  sale: $8.99/dz.          charcoal & graphite sticks available in bulk-call for quotes        Jumbo Layout Stick and Jumbo Clutch Holder Use to create dramatic artwork with bold strokes. Also great for large coverage areas. item# 206BP-5250; $19.98 40% off sale: $11.99   Jumbo Carbon Sketch Stick and Jumbo Clutch Holder Also use to create dramatic artwork with bold strokes. Also great for large coverage areas. item# 206BP-5950; $19.98 40% off sale: $11.99 Drawing Class Essential Tools Kit: item# 1-Kit; retail: $10.99 Mixed Drawing Media, contains 13 essential drawing tools that any artist needs for any basic mixed media drawing class. This thoughtful selection of General's handcrafted drawing tools is an easy solution for art instructors and drawing students. this kit contains 1 each of the following: HB Graphite Pencil, 2B Medium Graphite Pencil, 4B Soft Graphite Drawing pencil, Layout Ebony Black soft pencil, 4B Soft Charcoal pencil, 6B Extra-Soft Charcoal pencil, compressed graphite stick, compressed charcoal stick, sanguine pastel stick, white pastel stick, willow (vine) charcoal stick, kneaded eraser, artist sharpener.   Carbon Sketch Pencils-blistercarded item#: 595-BP; $2.49 each 2 each of General's Carbon Sketch Pencils blistercarded with a sharpener. Smooth as graphite, dark as charcoal. Mike Hill's favorite pencil! ...or buy a dozen for just $6.99! (item #595)   MULTICHROME pigmented artists' quality colored pencils Made with real artists' pigment, these pencils provide superior lightfastness to Prismacolor Color Pencils, which are made using dyes. Professional Quality. Made in USA. in 12 and 24 piece sets and open-stock  General's MULTICHROME color pencil sets: 3.3 m. pre-sharpened  400-12A: 12color set $8.99 400-24A: 24 color set $16.99 single pencils: 99 cents; or buy 12 or more, pay just .89!  KIMBERLY watercolor pencil sets: available in sets of 8, 12 and 24 colors 8pc: item #700-8A $4.80 12 pc: item #700-12A $7.20 24 pc: item #700-24A $14.40 "Kiss-Off" stain remover removes grease, wet or dry oil paint, lipstick, blood, grass stains, red wine, chocolate, coffee, baby stains, pet stains, copy machine toner, permanent marker, mystery spots and more! Item# 136-BP SALE: $1.98 each Tri-Tip eraser: ideal for erasing areas of fine detail. Item #T-24BP sale: .79 each   flat-pencil sharpener item #S-6000 easily and effortlessly creates a flat point on flat pencils, charcoal & graphite sticks and more; contains: 1 Flat Point sharpener, 1 carpenters' pencil, plus 1 flat sketching pencil retail: $7.98 sale: just $3.99  General's Layout Pencil: Soft Sketch (Ebony)  item #555 Round shape, soft graphite w/ black finish  sale: $5.99/dz.  980A-BP jumbo graphite sticks $2.98 960A-BP Assorted Jumbo Charcoal $2.98  958A-BP White Charcoal $2.98 sale: $1.98   970A-BP graphite sticks $2.98    957A-BP assorted charcoal sticks $2.98  940A-BP earth tone compressed pastel sticks: $2.98 sale: $1.98   941-BP sienna compressed pastel sticks $2.98 sale: $1.98   942-BP sanguine compressed pastel sticks $2.98 sale: $1.98    5630-ABP peel & sketch charcoal $3.98 sale: $1.99   525-BP drawing pencil set $2.98 sale: $1.49   57J-BPE jumbo willow charcoal $2.98   57C-BPE assorted willow charcoal $3.49   557-BP charcoal pencil set $3.98 sale: $1.99    588-BP sketch & wash pencils $2.48 or buy a dozen open stock for just $8.99!    97-BP woodless graphite pencils $3.29 (specify 2b, hb 4b, 6b or 8b)   555-2BP ebony pencils $1.19 or buy a dozen: for just $6.99!   558-2BP charcoal white $2.79   205M-BP the miser pencil extender $3.98 sale: just $1.99!  General's Erasers item # description price (per box) 100E Small, pink bevel eraser. 3 dozen per box $5.40 102E Medium, pink bevel eraser. 2 doz. per box  $6.75 Standard size gray kneaded eraser. 1 doz. per box sale: $6.99/dz. Large gray kneaded eraser. 1 doz. per box sale: $9.99/dz. Art Gum: rectangular shape. 1 doz. per box sale: $6.99/dz. P-24 Small white vinyl eraser. 2 dz./box $14.85 P-12 Large white vinyl eraser. 1 dz./box $12.01 P-6 Extra Large white vinyl eraser. 1 dz./box $26.73  The Masters Brush Cleaner...cleans, conditions and restores artists' brushes in one step. 101-BJ  2 1/2 oz. size $5.98 103-BJ 24 oz. school tub $24.99 114-BJ 1/2 oz. trial size $1.25 106-ASK The artist's survival kit: Brush cleaner, stain remover, ES-20 eraser, Masters hand soap, and a pencil sharpener, packed in a brush cleaning basin. $20.00 Pencil Facts: There are about 2.8 billion pencils used in the United States every year. The average pencil can draw a line 35 miles long or write about 45,000 words. The first known wooden pencil dated back to the mid 1500's. It was a thin rod of wood with a bit of graphite stuck into one end. In the late 1600's, the pencil-making process we use today was first developed. The numbers on pencils refer to their grades, or hardness. Higher numbers, such as number 4, mean harder pencils. The harder the pencil, the less graphite that comes off onto the paper, making a lighter line. Bread crumbs were used as erasers until1770, when the first rubber eraser was made. In 1858, erasers were attached to the ends of pencils for the first time. To order: 1 (800) 861-DRAW or email customer service click here to see how a GENERAL PENCIL pencil is made Back to Purveyors' Main Index   Boone, Banner Elk, Blowing Rock, High Country, West Jefferson, Deep Gap , Todd, Zionville, Vilas, Elk Park, Newland, North Carolina,  art materials, art supplies, fine art supplies, giclee prints, giclee publishing, M. 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