Testing 150 YEAR OLD Lead Pencils..(do they still work?)
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- čas přidán 8. 10. 2021
- I recently got ahold of the OLDEST Pencils I could find. These pencils are from the year 1870. Making them the oldest art supply in my collection. Enjoy :)
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Im sorry to hear that, hopefully you'll get better soon! Your videos put a smile on my face and I find these one's really interesting. 😊
I'm so sorry to here that I hope you get better soon. Also I hope the move goes well those can be pretty rough. I'm still a huge fan even though I'm a pharmacy student now and I make my own videos.
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I really wish people would understand that museums aren't just store rooms for things that are old. They have standards about both the quality and type of thing they'll take and most only display a tiny fraction of what they actualy store. Far better that it ended up with someone who used it to make an educational video thousands of people will watch than it sending up in a drawer with 15 other 100+yr old pencil sets.
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Also with the fact that the pencils and the case possibly contain toxins could hold a challenge. Yes museums have some items that are toxic, but they can’t prevent things from happening. Also lots of museums probably have some pencils similar to the ones Rae has so her sending the pencils really wouldn’t do much.
My thoughts exactly
Yes, exactly! Thank you. Not everything old is rare, not everything rare is valuable, and not everything old and rare should be perfectly preserved forever.
@@TheHopperUK In fact, some should be disposed of carefully.
Literally saw one of those EXACT tins of “Paris Green” you showed as examples in a thrift store a few years ago. It felt like there as still a decent amount in it. I’m always absolutely baffled how many people don’t know (or don’t care?) how bad this stuff can be so thank you for taking all the precautions you did.
Those arsenic paints are not that poisonous unless your whole house is completely covered in them and you touch it all the time.
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Maybe if you can afford it next time buy them and carefully seal them up and store them in an outdoor shed sealed in a larger container, or dispose at a toxic waste disposal site? But As long as you warn everyone there especially the store owner. At least Warn people, they may honestly be ignorant of this danger!
I'm in the lane of don't know, and that's because I was never taught about it.
I also had no idea about this before watching this video, so 🤷 people simply don't know
Thank you Rae for educating
1870s Faber-Castell: haha pretty green
2021 rae: oh no, poison green
It wasn't just about "pretty". The wealthy used that green for wallpaper in their homes, which made it a fashion social status item. And meant that people in the emerging middle class wanted it in their homes too. Thus the green in that pencil box marked it as 'luxury' just by looking at it.
@@tez-cat529 that would be a bit too long winded for a simple joke
I mean, this was also a time where your milk or bread could kill you (plaster of Paris was a common food additive by manufacturers).
@@tez-cat529 it was luxury because it’s a rare, pretty and vibrant colour tho
Yum, my favorite 😝😝
You were right to worry about the green dye: they were really toxic colours for a long time.
The pencils "leads" were fine, though. There's never been any lead in pencils. People just call it that because they were more familiar with lead in daily life, and graphite looks a lot like lead. The scratchiness could be down to the clay the graphite was mixed with.
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Thanks for the fun fact
I came to the comments looking for this. Like they only called it lead cause they thought it was when they found it back in like the 1500s
True, graphite is awesome. Completely safe and non toxic, though if you swallow it, it can cause problems since the human body can't absorb it
I think they were referring to parts of the box being made from lead rather than the pencils themselves.
I don’t agree they belong in a museum, they were made for creating. It was their intention back then and I am sure they would be pleased to see that someone such as yourself owns them.
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yes exactly
My thoughts exactly. They were made for someone like her.
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@@EgoBrain1 Ily random citizen. You just told my thoughts
Lead pencils never really had lead in them from what I've read. You see they use to call graphite "blacklead". It was more brittle and needed support. Then they found they could mix it with things to manipulate the material more to get more desirable results.
So I highly doubt your pencils have lead in them.
Edit: yeah looked it up the pencils are made with a graphite blended with clay.
thanks for sharing that’s good to know!!!
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@@4Rgames Why the hell do you think correcting people is going to change anything?
The lead isn’t in the writing material but in the paint the pencils are dipped in from everything I’ve read.
Yeah well I would believe it was in the paint. In which case I would not sharpen those at all
I love her so much she spent hundreds of dollars on just just to make great content. Not a lot for creators are as great as her!
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As a small channel, I appreciate it because I have to buy most of my art and craft supplies with my own money (I have a regular day job and CZcams is one of many hobbies).
Camera equipment alone costs hundreds so yeah there's a lot of creators shelving out hundreds.
When CZcamsrs buy super crazy expensive stuff for their vids, it's because they can claim it on their taxes as a business expense. (Love Rae, and this isn't meant to be shade btw. Just a fun fact I know.)
@@winterspriteI’m also a small creator
I love art aswell,
Honestly, i prefer a person actually showing it to the world and explaining the history of it rather than getting stuck in a museum I can never visit in my entire life.
Faber Castell is one of my favorite Companies for Art Supplies. I love their Pencils and Colored Pencils. Been using them for years. Seeing 150 year old Pencils in a video just. . .🤯. I'm glad you're taking precautions too after seeing the green color.
It is one of my favorites too. My dad got me a set of colored pencils when he went to Germany on a business trip. I treasured them for years and added other Faber-castell art supplies to my collection.
I just did a check, and pencils have not contained lead since the 1600s when graphite was first discovered to be usable for drawing. Graphite is entirely safe for humans
It literally says polygrade lead pencils right on the package
@Roslyn We still say pencil lead. We don’t say pencil graphite unless we are speaking specifically of the graphite. But there is no lead in the core of these pencils! And, though we still say pencil lead, there is no lead in the current pencils, either.
@@wiffleandchomp3742 The German word for pencil is Bleistift ("lead pen"). But there has never been lead in the pencil, it was just a confusion.
@@Nikioko same in Polish (ołówek, ołów means lead)
We say 'lead pencils' because the paint used to be lead-based. The 'lead' never used to refer to the graphite.
I love how she was looking at a deadly poison and was like "let's make art"
She did take every precaution she could so yaa…
@@themysticblossom2870 i know that, but j wouldn't be near that drawing
@@nikki-fc6pz honestly I wouldn't be either but still the video was really good
@@themysticblossom2870 it surely was
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I love how appreciate she is of the old art supplies. And how she try’s so hard to preserve. You are awesome 🤩
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That heart attack when you see that green but like... Hot darn that green is to *die* for.
(Had to do the bad pun)
I know... It is seriously the most gorgeous green!
I might agree with the "they belong in a museum, NOT YOUR HANDS" thing if they were MUSEUM QUALITY to begin with. But this is a used set, already sharpened and used. You are not "preserving" something by not using them a SMALL amount. Yeah, it would be a shame to use them up entirely and have nothing left of them to show what they were like, but using them as singular exemplars shouldn't be giving anyone heart attacks.
If this was a famous artist's set, I could understand a museum wanting it. But surely no museum needs a(nother?) random mass produced pencil set
At my old school we had a 2,000 year old Roman shoe. Did it get put on display, or put in a box where only the students who knew about it and the professors could see it?
Yeah, it got put in a box.
Also, we had so many things that the community in our region of the state thought was "museum worthy" that we were several years behind on accessions and needed to turn away almost everything. Museums and archives are drowning in items but starved of funding.
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I'm disappointed she didn't show us the cores. Pencils made around this time had square cores, as opposed to the round ones we're accustomed to.
Ah, yes, as soon as I saw that bright green and remembered the time period I was YELLING. Shows you how much research I've done on Victorian shenanigans to clock that vibrant green.
Right? Thank goodness she had a ‘hold up!’ Moment and protected herself for the next setup and drawing.
imagine some random person testing out your pencils an trying them out 150 years later
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I’d be pretty happy.
You would be dead, so you won't really imagine anything.
Honestly I would like it.
She tried them out with gloves and everything she made sure not to damage them…. Idk why ur getting offended people used these in the past so if someone uses them now it’s bad?
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Sis, it’s your money and your choice what to do with what you buy. Those gems went to their rightful owner. They were made forever ago just for you to have them and do with them as you please in 2021. Nobody is more deserving than a Queen that takes every precaution and would do them justice. Keep being your awesome self, teaching and inspiring individuals from all over💚💚💚
To SuperReaDizzle: But PLEASE remember to stay safe. If I ever read that "SuperREADizzle has sadly passed away due to Arsenic poisoning from her art supplies", I will be very sad. (I might even have to hunt you down and give you an arsewhoopin')
I love these historical Art videos It's just so fascinating to think about how old these are
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The whole arsenic green thing is the actual reason green is symbolized as “poison” “toxic” and “evil”
She is so underrated. she spends so much moneyy and research on these, thank you for giving us good content 😭💖💕
She literally has 1.7 million subs lmao
@@clownfromclowntown I can see that but when I commented this that time, I only saw 23k viewers at the beginning so I thought she's not viewed as much anymore. But yea she is now
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On the close up of the non writing end of the pencil, it looked like a couple had some light bite marks. Which if that's really what those marks are that makes me incredibly happy. 150 years ago someone was chomping down on pencils too.
The non-writing end is the 'tip'. The other end (whether sharpened on not) is called the 'point'.
Same thing
the core of the pencil is almost certainly graphite, not lead. while lead has been used as a writing tool in antiquity (in the form of leadpoint), pencil cores have never been made of lead historically. the reason they're called "lead pencils" or that the stuff inside is called "pencil lead" is because people used to think that graphite was a form of lead (its not). the common misconception that old pencils were made with lead stems from this terminology confusion.
THAT SAID, its very possible that the *paint* on the outside of the pencil is lead paint, as using lead paint for this purpose was common practice. the seller, in warning you about lead, probably either shared the misconception that old pencils are made with lead (and like, who can blame them, when it says "lead pencils" on the box), or they're referring to the paint on the outside.
in summary, "lead pencil" is just a traditional term for graphite pencils, and the "lead" in "lead pencils" has never truly been lead. this is probably why it looks and feels alot like graphite, because it almost certainly is. this section of a wikipedia page has alot of information about the history of graphite and cites sources for the claim that lead pencils never contained lead: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pencil#Graphite_deposit_discoveries
ps: i really love your channel and especially your art history videos!! i'm not even much of a visual artist myself, but i love learning how visual art is done. thank you for all the hard work and research and time and money you put into making this content!
You are almost certainly correct. lead is also way more expensive than graphite as graphite is pretty much just garbage formed in metal processing. And even if they were lead it's not dangerous to handle lead occasionally. just wash your hands afterwards. It was way more dangerous for the people who made things from lead as while doing that they would be in contact with lead and lead vapors pretty much every day.
My heart shattered when she sliced through the stickers on the outside of the box
Oh damn sameee
Why?! They come in packs of 100 for $9 on Amazon. The Edgar Alan Poe ones especially are always multiples in the packs.
The fact that ANYONE made it to adulthood back in the olden days is a miracle!
Literally EVERYTHING was out to, as Rae says, “unalive” you!! 😳
Even colors are out to *unalive* you like DAMN
That's why they had so many kids.
Can we appreciate how she goes to the depths of its history just to tell us..... like wth I could never
I didn't expect this video to make me emotional, these pencils were made just 5 years after the slaves were freed! I can imagine a newly freed slave holding those pencils as they write their name for the first time. I come from a family of teachers so I can imagine my ancestors in this situation so clearly! This was the 1st time so many African-Americans got the chance to build their lives around the joy of education & art. Just being able to own their own pencils must have been a dream come true. Can you imagine how many artists, writers & teachers were being born at this time. I'm so thankful for everything they did for future generations. So many possibilities were born from a set of pencils like these.
What a bizarre comment
Love the video but lead was never used in pencils (as lead), it has always been graphite right from the start so the differences wouldn't have been resultant of that. Loved the content though!
The intro was the most curiously awesome thing I have ever seen.
Love you, Rae! ❤❤
I just don't know how she could still make art with those pencils knowing poison was in the packaging. The dedication gurl!! I would run to the emergency room and never go to my studio again!!
I still feel baffled when the history of green and arsenic is brought up. It really shows how far we've come with technology and advancements, but I still always love watching these videos. This one's like a mini time capsule posed as a box of pencils. 😊
This is why i know a lot about art:
(my history art lesson)
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Other than the whole "super deadly" part, it's cool that you were able to see legitimate Paris green with your own eyes!
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I have always considered you as my role model artwise
It feels so good to see you back and I hope your health is doing well and I feel so happy to see my inspiration just growing and growing big ❤️❤️love u so much rae ❤️❤️❤️
Speaking as someone who wrote a paper on the “Arsenic Century” aka the Victorian era. And knowing exactly how much it was used not only in the art and design world but also everything from pesticides on crops, to cosmetics, to painting toys, to medicine you were absolutely right to take precautions with that green. I literally swore when I saw the colour and was glad you spotted it too.
Rae is the reason I wanted to learn realism I love rae!!!
LOVE this genre of your channel the history of arts! Very different from other art channels!💖
I hope that you find a way to store them safely!! We don't want you getting sick from the toxins!!
You really think after all those precautions Rae wouldn’t have think of that.
I love this. I'm slightly obsessed with Faber-Castell since I learned that the youngest son of the founder moved to New York and eventually started his own company, Eberhard Faber, which was eventually bought back by Faber-Castell in 2010. There is a park near my home named after Faber, and a few years ago an artist installed a pencil museum there.
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It would be so cool if 300 or smh years from now an artist with a social media account similar to this made a video of themselves unboxing a packet of crayola colouring pencils
I literally went "Oh no" when I saw the color of the lining. Why does history have to be so dangerous?
Lack of knowledge and rich people who didn't care about the lower class citizens lol
Love seeing your historical art medium videos, this just made my day
I love these videos because I have been interested in history ever since I was 8!
And I'm an learning artist, so it feels nice to see some of my favorite things :)
The lil dance segment made my whole day
I love this. I recognized the brand name right away, but I never knew the backstory about the heiress getting married to Castell and getting a literal castle. The castel pun made me laugh. All the captions were comedy gold. I really loved that you used PPE too.
I really enjoy your videos, and love how you review every product that's art related, and tell others that you can even make art with some of the cheapest supplies
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Frick yes safety first. There is always a risk of dangerous compounds when using old things. I also recognized the green color instantly, and I am very glad you’re being safe. Look at you safety queen out here being a good role model 👏🏻
Rae, you’re who I click on when I’m getting into anything I’m really working at! Just saying, high thanks from me Rae, your art is stunning, your art history vids and broke art playlist are fire, and I cannot thank you enough. I have legit nothing of my art online (I’m quite far from spectacular), but I’m so thankful people like you, Chloe Rose and Jazza are online. Y’all keep me working at it. Thank you so much 😊
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Luv ur pfp
I love getting to know more about historical side of art suppiles
same
I really enjoy these old materials videos! Thanks for sharing Rae, I learned so many things with you today.
I love when you do these types of videos. The very first one that caught my attention to your channel was when you got a really old sketchbook from ebay and it had really cool drawings in it. I think I watched it several times just to see the drawings.
It’s such a beautiful green! Of course it’s deadly. I’ve learned so much about the green this past year…too much free time maybe lol. I love your art supply history videos!
I am so happy you took the proper precautions when using them! A lot of people would not care but, things from this time are so so dangerous!
Your channel is no lie, my happy place. I am really glad you took all these precautions but still continued to make the video for us. It just shows your commitment.
I really love these historical art supplies videos. I already have a lot of respect for the artist of old, but this sements it.
Thank you for spending you money and time on showing us a forgotten world.
Well done Rea that’s so cool I love ur Chanel ! I’ve been watching since the beginning and always had faith well done
This is awesome! Thank you for setting a good example btw - instead of rushing into it you took precautions and those precautions paid out.
Also can you do a modern pencil drawing next to it for reference?
I love it when she says those funny words, 'oo, they went off, they ate and left no crumbs!' Hearing Rae say those things always makes me smile. She is too funny! I love you to bits Rae gurl!
I could not love you or this video more! I literally laughed out loud of you and your hazmat suit dancing. Thank you for the video. It was pure entertainment as well as informative! Thank you!!
It feels sooo good whenever I hear rae her historical art videos are just wow!! And also she is such a good artist
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She bought them she can do what she wants stop criticizing her it’s not your money or something you decided to spend your money on. And obviously the museum ain’t spring the cash so… she deserves to do what she wants with it
Rae is always coming up with such creative ideas!!
The diversity in her content is what makes me never get bored watching her videos
I love your old art supply videos! They're so interesting! Thanks for sharing these with us.
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YAY! I love the vintage series! Now biggest challenge: comparing the 150 year old pencils to the 100 year old pencils, Please complete.
@@veselamonova8924 , thank u!
Just saying, there's nothing stopping museums from buying any of these things online just as easily as you and everyone else.
This is always my favorite series on your channel!
The best part about such videos are the back stories. I love them !!
Girl as soon as you brought them out and didn't have a mask on I got sooooo scared. So glad to see you suited up and were being very cautious. Good example to show other artists too so we don't have an unfortunate accident ;-;
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I really appreciate that you take the time to do some research & give a backstory. I was not expecting the plot twist. Thank you for educating people on what Paris Green Is, I had no Idea! 😳 Just out of curiosity where have you stored them?
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Get better Rae!! Take time and care for yourself. I just want to let you know that you make lots of people's days even brighter 💫
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Finally my history teacher is back 🙆📚
Love you rae!!!!
This made my day
And btw can you and Moriah Elizabeth do a collab it would be amazing
Rea I just want to say that you are one of the people if not THE one that inspires me the most to start drawing and I tnk you so much for that I wish you all the best and I hope that you feel better about you health problems BIIIIIIIIIG KISSES love you 💜💜💜💜💜💜
This video is looking awesome rae!!!
I wonder if Faber-Castell has an in-house museum and archive of all the products they've made which might have space for them. They might not even have any of them in the records. It might be worth contacting the company, because it would be great to see them go home.
They have a museum about the old way of production and it is possible to visit the castle of the House of Castell. And you can watch the modernised process. Along with the castle tour, there is another tour about the „Press Camp“ where they talk about the importance of the castle post war. It was used as a base for journalists to listen and report on the Nürnberger trials (where high ranking Nazis were judged and sentenced).
So these pencils are so old that they were used by Jesus in 3rd grade for his art project, but anyways the case looks so cool and it’s all just cool
I’m cackling at “Jesus in the 3rd grade”
I made it to ur 100
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Little Jesus in 3rd grade at 10pm would go up to Mary and tell her he needed those pencils for an art project for school the next day
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This was a super cool and informative video. Great job Rae Dizzle! Awesome sauce!👍
Rae proceeds to draw an eyeball while wearing a hazmat suit. Next level! 🏆
Series idea: use your best art supplies and recreate the artwork you made with cheap your art supplies.
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I just love how you give premises before every video. Love the conversation.
I love how Rea teaches us history in her historical videos ❤️❤️💗
I hope you're healing my dear, have certainly missed your videos. You always put a smile on my face!
I can't believe how old those pencils are, wow.
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Love that the case still opens and closes!
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This was really cool and interesting! Thank you for risking your life for our benefit!
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This made my day (night actually) so much better. I have a spider in my room that has kept me awake, it’s 1:45 AM here, so it was nice to watch something entertaining. 😅😁
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@@ace_thepixel8880 hmm......
I honestly don't understand the "this belongs in a museum & not with you" comments. Art and other objects from museums get auctioned off all the time. It's not like you can tell them to return the objects to the museum just cause they're old. She purchased them with her own money thus it now belongs to her.
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