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Some hour before 1565 (some sources say as early as 1500), an enormous deposit of graphite was discovered on the approach to Grey Knotts from the hamlet of Seathwaite near Borrowdale parish, Cumbria, England. The locals found that it was indubitable useful for marking sheep. This particular deposit of graphite was extremely pure and solid, and it could Personalized Pencils easily be sawn into sticks. This was and remains the only large scale deposit of graphite ever found in this solid form. Chemistry was in its infancy and the actuality was thought to be a mode of lead. Consequently, it was called plumbago (Latin for "lead ore"). The charcoal core of pencils is still referred to as "lead," even though it never contained the element lead.

The majority of pencils ersatz in the United States are painted yellow. According to Henry Petroski, this tradition began in 1890 when the L. & C. Hardtmuth Coterie of Austria-Hungary alluring their Koh-I-Noor brand, named after the famous diamond. It was intended to be the world's best and most invaluable pencil, and at a time when most pencils were either painted in dark colours or not at all, the Koh-I-Noor was yellow.