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Graf von Faber-Castell Pen of the Year 2006 with mammoth ivory

March 31st, 2006

The pencil represents a symbol for writing and drawing. No other writing instrument is so simple yet universal, so undemanding, useful and timeless. A poet once described it as an instrument on which to play the music of the soul and, even today, it remains one of the tools most frequently used by creative people.
Just as certain people have a natural affinity to certain others, some materials just “go together” . Ivory is frequently combined with ebony, known even in antiquity as one of the most beautiful and most expensive of woods.The heartwood, very dark brown to black, shows off the creamy white of the iviry almost perfectly. This composition takes ideal shape in the “Pen of the Year 2006″.

Exclusive materials of highest quality are chosen for the “pen of the Year 2006″: materials that are a challenge to obtain. For the best mammoth ivory one must undergo adbenturous expedititions to the coast of the Artic Ocean in Sibiria. Frozen in pure ice, the ivory there has retained its immaculate beauty. It comes to light only cluring the brief Siberian summer.For export the ivory reqires a license that cannot be granted until a scientific assessment has been carried out.
Mammoth ivory is no odinary ivory. It is heavier and a connoisseur will immediately recognize it from the unique veining. The material has absorbed moisture during the millennia it was buried in the ice, and needs to be slowly and carefully dried out over a period of three to five years. Only then can one cautiously cut, grind, turn, and polish it.

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