Refill leads made of burnt graphite. Grade HB. 12 leads in a glass tube. Length 3 cm. Diameter 1.18 mm.

Lead for writing. 1.18 mm.
There are deprivations you can only feel when they have gone. People who write a lot by hand will have this experience when they hold a leadholder in their hands with the old 1.18 mm lead, which was so hard to find for a number of decades. How did it work before? With the 0.7 mm lead which scratched permanently and broke easily or, when you are too tired, with the 2 mm lead which is much too thick for writing purposes and has to be sharpened very often. Especially when you intended to write small but legibly on time schedule books or small index cards this was almost impossible. For this purpose we offer this pencil from the Manufactum writing instrument series with which you will experience this deprivation, but will fix it at the same time. Our retractable pencils are once again equipped with the 1.18 mm graphite lead for hand writers.