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It wasn’t until Matthias from Bleistift clued me in on Schnapszahlen that I began to understand many of the anniversary-related products Faber-Castell has offered over the years. Milestones such as their 250th anniversary made sense, but…their 222nd?
To be honest I was a little cynical when I first saw that 222nd anniversary set years ago. It gave me the impression of an overburdened marketing director sitting at a desk, missing out on Christmas dinner with the family, staring blankly at the big red circle around January 1st on the calendar, muttering over and over again: “I must think of something. I must think of something…”
As its turns out, in some parts of the world those types of anniversary numbers are worth celebrating every bit as much as the rounded ones.
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Schnapszahlen are an example of “repdigits”: numbers that enjoy a slightly elevated sense of privilege owing to their repeated digits. They are palindromes by nature and in certain instances, express symmetry.
So it all made perfect sense when I first saw this new Faber-Castell gift set, celebrating the 111th anniversary of the Castell 9000: the perfect National Pencil Day* gift for the pencil- blogging musician(s) in your life.
*March 30th.
Contrapuntalism 
That’s a good looking presentation box. I guess the pencils are not stamped, so the pencils don’t feel as special as the 222/Jubilator ones, but it’s still a good idea.
Thanks for showing us!
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No stamping as far as I can tell, and it looks as if the box is cardboard. I agree it’s a nice set, and I think it may be the only one that has the jumbos with the full set. At least, something other than one of the gigantic wood-box collections.
Update: limited to 5,000.
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