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Pen(cil) mightier than the sword: Faber-Castell

When in 1761 the cabinet-maker Kaspar Faber started his own small business in Stein near Nuremberg manufacturing pencils, he laid the foundation stone of the present-day firm Faber-Castell. The critical development took place in 1839: Lothar von Faber was the first to mark his pencils with the company name (A.W. Faber) – making them one of the world’s first branded articles! ...

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