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C120 the shade of red in the basic dozen Derwents I would imagine, Max, and yes, 11cents as I recall. Bit dearer now. https://accoblobstorageus.blob.core.windows.net/literature/ef80d8ea-aed3-46fd-86c2-82570c7eacbe.pdf Bill On Wednesday, 14 September 2016, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Even though Derwents and Lakelands were not big > > with my generation in our schooldays, I do feel > > brought into your old coloring culture, Bill. > > So specific! names especially, whereas > > my efforts to recall class mates flounder and founder. > > Grade one, for heaven’s sake! Eleven cents, > > those were the days! (sure they weren’t pennies?) > > The layout in quatrains mostly convinces, > > despite some lines being ever so long. > > Your vocabulary of ‘nuance’ etc reaches a peak > > at ‘covenant’, a sort of benign grandfatherly retrospect. > > Max > > On Sep 13, 2016, at 15:33, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask] > <javascript:;>> wrote: > > > Peter 'Mouse' Milsom in grade one > > had 36 Derwents, pencils of nuance > > to which my dozen Lakelands > > could hold no candle. > > > > John Link had a dozen Derwents > > most in pretty good nick except > > for one, a real fire engine red > > worn down to a stubby inch or so. > > > > All those post boxes, phone booths > > and rich red outfits to adorn > > his created characters with. No > > muted tones, just full lead pushdown. > > > > Andrew Kingsford outlined upper case > > project headings in greylead before > > splatting them with two or three bold > > Derwents, not caring that he went over the edges. > > > > I'd borrow where I could so at least parts > > of my drawings had lustre. But it pushed > > friendships. Once I deepened an aqua sea > > with a borrowed Derwent from Michael Kent > > > > who shook his head at the result, > > seeing correctly that I had overplayed > > my hand, the unwritten covenant: > > shading only with a borrowed tool. > > > > After earning enough from a paper round, > > I bought individual Derwents at 11 cents > > a pop from the newsagent and slotted them > > into my haggard Lakeland cardboard pack. > > > > But how could it be predicted what colours > > would be needed for future page spreads? > > And anyway, those best equipped - > > some girls even moved up to 72 Derwents - > > > > produced the lamest art, so intent were > > they on wearing down lead evenly, > > retaining six shelves of possibility. > > Linky's red outclassed the lot of us. > > > > bw >