12 Pack Mongol for Kids Jumbo Size Hexagonal Pencil #2 HB Medium-Soft durable complastic lead. The pencil body and lead are about 23% larger than regular-sized pencils. Its hexagonal barrel keeps it from rolling off desks!

This is a kid's version of the pencil that was once the #1 best selling pencil in the world. It sharpens well and doesn't break easily, because the lead is thick and it is made of the patented complastic lead invented by the world famous Eberhard Faber Pencil Company.

The yellow Mongol was the first pencil made with the now-ubiquitous yellow barrel -- which was then, and is now for Mongol pencils -- a reliable visual signal of a high quality writing pencil. Teachers once required the #2 HB Mongol, by name, to be in every school kid's pencil box. Eberhard Faber proudly proclaimed it to be "The Business Pencil of the World."

Surprisingly, the Mongol pencil line was rationalized away and US production ceased when the Eberhard Faber Pencil Company was purchased by a multi-product conglomerate.

But Pencil Things, Inc. found it being produced offshore with the same materials, methodolgy, and -- very important to pencil aficionados -- Mongol's trademark colored ferrule, with shiney black ends surrounding a brass center!

We're proud to offer a kid's version of one of history's finest woodclinched pencils. It is topped with a big, excellent slate-pink eraser Eberhard Faber made famous. >

Sold in singles, and with substantial discounts in quantities of 12, 72 and 144 each.