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Brand: J.S. Staedtler
Made in: Germany
While the Mars 754 is relatively easy to find, these two are actually quite rare. I’ve noticed this model appears to be made in colors from a bright blue to a near-black. Update: I recently got another Mars 754 that matches my darker one and realized some of them might just be incredibly dirty! The single pencil is my newest addition, and it is about as vibrant Mars blue as it gets. I guess a 100 years of grit and grim can really take a toll on a surface color.
Long before Johann Sebastian Staedtler founded his pencil making factory within Nuremberg’s old city walls back in 1835, the STAEDTLER family had been hand-making this well-loved writing instrument for generations already. In fact, the roots can be traced back to 1662, the year in which first references to Friedrich Staedtler as a pencil-making craftsman were made in the city annals.
In the early 1900s Staedtler introduced its Mars line of pencils with packaging bearing an image of the head of Mars — the Ancient Roman god of war. (This no doubt inspired American Pencil Co. to adopt the name and image of the Roman goddess Venus not long after.)
Today, Staedtler employees more than 2,000 people worldwide and is the largest European manufacturer of wood-cased pencils.
