Catching Some Z’s

I did a massive sorting of my collection earlier this year.  The thought came to me, “I’ve got a zillion pencils here.  Let’s see how many I can pick out that start with the letter Z.”

Here are the wooden brand-name pencils:

There’s also a Zulu in an earlier post.  The swirly one says Zippy Special.  There really ought to be a Zebra — I imagine such a pencil could be really cool-looking, with black and white stripes.  I know, the Zimmermannsstift (carpenter’s pencil in German) is a bit of a stretch.

Stretching further, I found these advertising pencils:

And finally, a mechanical pencil.  There is only one, but it is the Z-est of all!