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| Vintage Cedro Cow Boy colored pencils that probably didn't come in this box originally. |
Here’s a small set of colored pencils that I picked up on
eBay a while back purely out of curiosity: Cedro Cow Boy. At least, that’s what
I’m going to assume are the names of the manufacturer and brand because they
are stamped on the pencils themselves. The plastic box they came in, however,
says “Color-Graph” and “made in Italy.” Somehow I suspect these pencils did not
come in this box when they were originally purchased. But no matter – I thought
both the box and the pencils were curiosities, neither of which I’d heard of.
A quick search on Brand Name Pencils (always my first
stop when researching vintage pencils and also a great source for purchasing
them) turned up a couple of specimens produced by an Argentinian pencil company called Cedro with a logo that looks somewhat similar to the one on my
pencils. I could find no other information about either Cedro or Color-Graph
pencils. What an interesting mystery!
The Cow Boy pencils themselves are typical of many older
colored pencils I encounter: very hard and brittle and containing little
pigment. Needless to say, I didn’t try making a sample sketch. This is more of
a pictorial review of an unusual specimen. If you know anything about these
pencils (or, for that matter, the box they came in), I’m all ears!
Edited 9/17/20: After promoting this post in the Erasable
Podcast Community group on Facebook, I learned that the box and the pencils do,
indeed, belong to each other! In fact, “cedro” is simply the Portuguese word
for cedar and not a brand name at all. Bobby Truby (of Brand Name Pencils)
believes these are BO-FIM pencils made in Italy. His site shows an example of a different pencil made by the same company. I’ve changed the title of
this post to reflect the corrected brand name.
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| I sure would like to get my hands on some of those “silk-touch” pencils that came in this box originally! |
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| "Super-BO" -- clearly an important feature! I love the dingbats on either side of Cow Boy. |
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