Hi MAMO - this was another fun one! Put me down for a gross of the Press pencils should someone at Moon hear your plea! I will echo it, as well! Moon seems to be an "under the radar" organization. It's hard to imagine any business that makes things and sells them (even at a wholesale level) not to have a website. A teacher's store in the Detroit area (sadly now closed) was the only place I ever saw Moon branded pencils - mostly varieties of Try-Rex. Although I have seen the USA Gold/Titanium pencils in many big box retailers - and for my money they generally meet or exceed the performance of a Ticonderoga. The transformation of the Musgrave website and marketing efforts over these past few years has been incredible, and I have to believe they are selling more pencils (at least I hope so). Interesting how Musgrave has its 600 News, Best had its Press, and other companies made bold, soft, dark cored pencils and named them with a newspaper theme. Thanks for sharing your Best/Moon collection with us!
Moon products is one of my favorite brands for pencils. I find it difficult to find a lot of their products as they don't have a website. Amazon is a complete mess and I refrain from using them whenever I can. I also ended up finding an interesting article that was linked over on the r/pencils group on reddit. Apparantly, Moon/Best makes pencils that are made from Denim (yes, as in denim jeans) and newspaper. I also find it interesting the "Crown Cedar" model as it is pretty close to the America's Best USA Gold. I almost wonder if they are the same pencil as they look so similar. I have to find all 4 to add to my collection! Another interesting thing is in one of my recent finds, I ended up getting a "TAD" eraser made by Richard Best. I assumed it would be useless since Richard Best became Richard Bust (Sorry for the bad joke) at least 20-30 years ago, but I used it and it worked great. It was right up against the Pentel Hi-Polymer and Magic Rub. I also found a few Staedtler Mars erasers from the 80s, a magic rub made by Faber-Castell (I believe) which, unusually was actually in a bevel shape similar to the Pink Pearl (Of which, I had found a few from around the time but were completely useless, and I also found a few Magic Rub erasers from when they were made by Sanford which also worked well. I almost wonder if the erasers that work good for so long, work well because they are made from plastic or contain PVC or Latex.
Hi MAMO - this was another fun one! Put me down for a gross of the Press pencils should someone at Moon hear your plea! I will echo it, as well! Moon seems to be an "under the radar" organization. It's hard to imagine any business that makes things and sells them (even at a wholesale level) not to have a website. A teacher's store in the Detroit area (sadly now closed) was the only place I ever saw Moon branded pencils - mostly varieties of Try-Rex. Although I have seen the USA Gold/Titanium pencils in many big box retailers - and for my money they generally meet or exceed the performance of a Ticonderoga. The transformation of the Musgrave website and marketing efforts over these past few years has been incredible, and I have to believe they are selling more pencils (at least I hope so). Interesting how Musgrave has its 600 News, Best had its Press, and other companies made bold, soft, dark cored pencils and named them with a newspaper theme. Thanks for sharing your Best/Moon collection with us!
Moon products is one of my favorite brands for pencils. I find it difficult to find a lot of their products as they don't have a website. Amazon is a complete mess and I refrain from using them whenever I can.
I also ended up finding an interesting article that was linked over on the r/pencils group on reddit. Apparantly, Moon/Best makes pencils that are made from Denim (yes, as in denim jeans) and newspaper. I also find it interesting the "Crown Cedar" model as it is pretty close to the America's Best USA Gold. I almost wonder if they are the same pencil as they look so similar. I have to find all 4 to add to my collection!
Another interesting thing is in one of my recent finds, I ended up getting a "TAD" eraser made by Richard Best. I assumed it would be useless since Richard Best became Richard Bust (Sorry for the bad joke) at least 20-30 years ago, but I used it and it worked great. It was right up against the Pentel Hi-Polymer and Magic Rub. I also found a few Staedtler Mars erasers from the 80s, a magic rub made by Faber-Castell (I believe) which, unusually was actually in a bevel shape similar to the Pink Pearl (Of which, I had found a few from around the time but were completely useless, and I also found a few Magic Rub erasers from when they were made by Sanford which also worked well. I almost wonder if the erasers that work good for so long, work well because they are made from plastic or contain PVC or Latex.