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Brand: L&C Hardtmuth
Made in: Czechoslovakia
The pencil has two names I am familiar with, Eros and Kosmos. Not sure why the double name other then it is a transition pencil. You know from one name to another. This has been documented with a few different pencils like the Microtomic Van Dyke. Was Van Dyke and then they changed the name to Micortomic. Some pencils bear the old name, some the new and a few carry both names.
L&C Hardtmuth was formed in 1790 by Josef Hardtmuth in Vienna, Austria. In 1802 he patented the first pencil lead made from a combination of clay and graphite, and in 1848 the company was moved to the city of Budweis in what is today the Czech Republic. In 1888 they introduced the KOH-I-NOOR pencil, named after the largest known diamond in the world at that time. Today the company operates under the name KOH-I-NOOR HARDTMUTH. Learn more about this company’s fascinating history here.