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Conte A Paris

Frenchman Nicolas Conte Was A Classic 18Th-Century Renaissance Man: A Chemist, Inventor, Soldier And Balloonist, And Artist. Most Importantly, For Our Purposes, He Created The Pencil As We Know It, Responding To A Wartime Lack Of British Graphite By Mixing The Material With Clay, Thereby Introducing The Possibility Of Different Degrees Of Hardness. He Then Invented The Conte Carre Crayon, A Firm Pastel Used By Degas And Picasso, Among Others. The Company Is Still Famed For These And Other Ranges Of Pastels, Crayons, And Pencils.

Size:

Length: 176.5 Mm

Diameter 8.5 Mm

Lead Diameter 5Mm</P