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| Sunset Dual-Kolor pencils |
I
admit I bought these purely for nostalgia.
It
had been so many decades since I last saw Dual-Kolor pencils that I didn’t even
know they were still part of my psyche. But as soon as I saw the thumbnail
image on Etsy of their triple-striped barrels, I instantly recognized them from
my childhood. They may very well have been my first colored pencils ever. I was
endlessly impressed that each pencil had a different color on either end!
In
particular, I remember an orange and green one that had a string tied around
the middle; the other end of the string was attached to the kitchen telephone
cord. My mom used it to jot notes and grocery lists with some kind of color code
(I’m a color-coded notetaker too, so I obviously got that gene from her).
Made
by the US pencil manufacturer Empire, Sunset Dual-Kolor pencils were probably
considered more of a novelty than a high-quality product even back in the ‘60s.
Now, with my vast familiarity with a huge number of colored pencil brands and
obvious higher level of sophistication, I can confidently state that these are the
coolest colored pencils I have ever owned – at age 6 or nearly 60. They are
also among the worst colored pencils I have ever used. Dry, hard, practically
unpigmented, they will remain in a vase where I can reminisce about the utter
coolness of bicolored pencils.
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| A bouquet of nostalgia |
At last... someone else who remembers these! They were the only type of colored pencils available in my childhood, as I lived in a very rural county. I was an adult before I encountered even decent-quality scholastic colored pencils. Crayola colored pencils were a gift from the angels compared to these.
ReplyDeleteBTW, Dick Blick now carries double-ended colored pencils from respectable brands. They don't tempt me, because how do you use an extender with these? But they have them.
I'm happy to hear the Dual-Kolors are nostalgic for you, too!
DeleteI had these pencils as a child, too! They sucked and put me off colored pencils for decades...until I discovered Prismacolor.
ReplyDeleteYes, they are nostalgic but quite terrible! Glad that colored pencil quality has gone up over the decades!
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