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Brand: J.S. Staedtler
Made in: Great Britain
Picked up some of these from a gentleman in the UK selling from a closed out years ago engineers shop circa late 1970's. These Gt. Britain marked Lumo 100's have the term Jet Bonded printed on the reverse of the pencils. Read they started doing this in about 1972 ....not sure for how long. I think this is the first generation of the UK Lumograph or very close. On the reverse of the box it says Made in Great Britain by Staedtler (UK) Limited Pontyclun. Staedtler bought the Pencil Factory in Pontyclun in 1975.
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.
