Maybe they discontinued the pencil line? Blick and Jerry’s don’t seem to have them either.

The store where I want to buy some, when I am better, has not currently in stock :-/.

In my opinion, prefer unhealthy pigments in the colors and paint, as unhealthy additives in the food.
With the colors and paint you can handle them properly so that it has no effect on you.
With food, it’s impossible to handle it properly without harming yourself because it’s there to eat, if it contains harmful substances.

What I mean by that is that the US safety regulations are totally ironic in my mind.

Is it a food, then there may be almost everything is allowed in it, except things that have become obsolete anyway.
Because there are cheaper alternatives, these substances are alibi-prohibited.
So then the FDA has a sense of why it exits.

While the safety regulations for objects, or things that are not food, are much higher.
Probably because it is assumed that someone does not know how to handle something properly. The person should not harm himself either with it.

But I also noticed that some people from the United States are much more concerned about the harmfulness of objects than about food.

Well I live in the EU where the safety regulations are relatively balanced. Except for a few things. For example hydrochloric acid can easily buy in the hardware store.

The wooden box is available on Amazon Canada but the price seems crazy to me (although I don’t know what they usually go for).

https://www.amazon.ca/Holbein-Artist-Colored-Pencil-Colors/dp/B00IPDNQEQ/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1549541011&sr=8-4&keywords=holbein+colored+pencils

The wooden box is available on Amazon Canada but the price seems crazy to me (although I don’t know what they usually go for).

[url]https://www.amazon.ca/Holbein-Artist-Colored-Pencil-Colors/dp/B00IPDNQEQ/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1549541011&sr=8-4&keywords=holbein+colored+pencils[/url]

That price makes me cry a little…

I talked to Holbein reps at a recent art materials show. I heard, years ago, that Holbein just didn’t want to spend the money to test their pencils for the US market. That was NOT true! They do sell a huge amount of paint here.

The pencils are not supposed to be sold in the US because of their high toxicity. They did not tell me specifically the ingredients that cannot get approval in the US. Lots of paint sold here contains cobalt and cadmium that just has a California warning label . They were aware of people selling them on amazon and eBay. They hope to eventually start releasing the pencils that will pass, but are not close to doing that it sounds like….I bought some years ago on eBay, there is no warning label, at least not in English. They told me to be very careful using them. Since I have had a long battle with cancer I won’t use them again.

People are not surprised when the super cheap CP sold on FB that come from China are toxic. They don’t expect the most expensive ones to be.

Blocks, Jerry’s, etc have never carried Holbein colored pencils. Because they cannot legally sell them here. They used to carry more of their paint though.

I suspect amazon sellers, like eBay, were sending them from Japan, because Holbein wholesaler here won’t sell them to you.

Pat I use Watercolors with cadmium and cobalt too. But we DON’T KNOW what chemicals are in these pencils. Most CP makers use cadmium hues, not real cadmium. But since cadmium and cobalt ARE allowed in the US with labels, they might be using worse things. Asbestos? Lead? Who knows? I don’t. But since buying open stock replacements isnt much of an option with these anyway.

I know people used to make beads from genuine cinnabar. But real cinnabar contains mercury. And makeup is entering the US with asbestos in it. The white face paint geishas used if I remember contained lead. Best to avoid known toxins, our food is bad enough; cancer really really sucks.

Re: Pencils You May Have Never Seen
I read somewhere here that Amazon.ca removed the Holbein CPs from its list… I have just seen them there, all of 150 colours in a wooden box at CDN $ 705.08. OUCH!!!

This is where I read it…!