Mirado Shorthand by Berol

Here we have a classic yellow pencil. I suspect this is quite an old pencil. I have no idea where I got it, but looking at the end of the pencil there is a classic indiation that this was a ‘find’:

You can see that the end has been trimmed - this is a classic way I’d trim off a broken or chewed end - I roll the end back and forth under a penknife blade until it snaps off.

I don’t chew pencils - yuk - so strongly suspect this pencil came to me with a mangled end, and I trimmed it to a point where I would be willing to actually use if.

Berol

We’ve covered Berols complex history briefly before - needless to say, the Berol who made this pencil are not the same Berol that exists today.

The pencil itself

The pencil is slightly beat up, but not too bad. It has a few dents, and as above the end has been a slightly mangled and chopped off. You can also see a little stain on the embossing near the end.

How does it write

Strangely enough, the pencil does not carry a hardness weighting on the embossing. It feels quite hard. If I had to guess I’d say this pencil is weighing in around an H grade. A little hard for my liking. And thus, it writes OK, but a little hard and a little light.

Sourcing

I suspect these are no longer available unless you scour the secondhand market.