Every day I take out my mechanical pencil and my Pink Pearl eraser and place them on the desk in front of me before I start my schoolwork. My eraser, though it was originally a perfect parallelepiped ...

The Pink Pearl eraser has been a pencil case staple for decades. It was originally manufactured by Eberhard Faber, as seen in the photo above. The eraser is currently manufactured by Paper Mate.

Pink erasers were a pencil-box must. One type that sticks out in our minds is Pink Pearl, which remains on school supply lists across the country.

The words "Pink Pearl" and eraser have gone together like "reading, writing and arithmetic" for about 70 years. Eberhard Faber put the first one on the end of a pencil it called the "Pearl," which ...