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Introduction
A pencil is a pencil, is a pencil - you'd think!

But this one's rather special - each Remarkable pencil is made from a single plastics vending machine cup, both the main stock of it and the core (traditionally called the lead). The Remarkable pencil was the brain-child of Edward Douglas-Miller.

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