Koh I Noor 'Triocolor' Triangular Colouring Pencils

A set of chunky colouring pencils from Koh-I-Noor, with comfortable natural wooden triangular profiles for an ergonomic grip. During the Napoleonic wars a continental shortage of high quality Cumbrian graphite pushed Joseph Hardtmuth (founder of Koh-I-Noor) to develop a pencil lead made from powdered graphite mixed with clay and in so doing created the very first modern pencil. Today the the company he founded maintains his legacy in the production of traditional and mechanical pencils, in České Budějovice, Czech Republic. The set consists of a cardboard box including six pencils, in red, blue, yellow, green, brown and black. Each pencil is 1cm thick and 18cm long.