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Blackwing Volumes 343- Broadcasting Television

$50.00

The Blackwing 343 is our tribute to broadcast television. Each pencil features a color bar finish inspired by the NTSC test pattern, and our extra-firm graphite. The model number 343, a reference to the 343 scanlines on early CRT televisions, is imprinted with a “TV snow” silver holographic foil.

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Description

On February 28, 1983, a wartime surgeon named Hawkeye said “Goodbye, farewell, and amen.” Ten years later, Mayday Malone straightened a picture on the wall and turned out the lights for the last time. In millions of living rooms across the country, viewers sat quietly through these final moments, saying goodbye together. The credits rolled, but no one moved.

Carried freely through the air, broadcast television invited participation without qualification. The same signal that arrived at a downtown apartment also reached a home on the edge of a country road. Broadcast television created a quiet cultural leveling, allowing audiences to form connections not just with stories, but with one another.

Pencil Set: The Blackwing 343 is their tribute to broadcast television. Each pencil features a color bar finish inspired by the NTSC test pattern, and extra-firm graphite. The model number 343, a reference to the 343 scanlines on early CRT televisions, is imprinted with a “TV snow” silver holographic foil.

Notebook: Limited edition A5 (148 x 210 mm) medium notebook features a color bar cover inspired by the NTSC test pattern, 160 pages of 100 GSM ruled paper, and a Vol. 343 pencil loaded in the pencil holster. This notebook also features special silver gilded edge pages inspired by the "TV snow" on CRT televisions.

Product Specifications

Notebook: 160 pages of 100GSM blank paper. Each notebook comes with 1 pencil.
Pencils are a set of 12 with their extra firm graphite.

Shipping

Orders are shipped Monday - Friday (excluding holidays) within 3-5 business days for all items, except drop ship items, during non peak season. 

Orders with priority shipping will be processed within 24 hours of receiving (excluding weekends and holidays).

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Returns

We offer free returns. You may return an item for refund or exchange within thirty days of purchase. Your item must be unused and in its original condition, including original packaging, in order to be eligible for return or exchange. 

Hester & Cook can not accept returns or exchanges on personalized merchandise.

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Blackwing Volumes 343 Notebook featuring stripes of colors on it.
Blackwing pencil featuring a rainbow of colors on it.
Colorful pencils with a Blackwing Volumes box on a white background.
Blackwing pencils featuring a rainbow of colors on it.
Close up of the Blackwing pencil.
Blackwing pencils laying scattered on a table with breakfast food near them and a tv guide open.
Blackwing Volumes 343 pencils in their box.
Person drawing in a notebook with colored pencils, next to a mug of coffee on a wooden table.
Blackwing Volumes 343 box.
Blackwing Volumes 343 box.
Blackwing Volumes 343 pencils coming out of the top of their packaging.
Back of the Blackwing Volumes 343 notebook.
Colorful pencil on an open notebook with a white background.
Side view of the Blackwing Volumes 343 notebook.
Blackwing Volumes 343 notebook laying on a white background with its corresponding pencil next to it and television paraphernalia surrounding them.
Side detail of the Blackwing Volumes 343 notebook.
Corner branding detail of the Blackwing Volumes 343 notebook.

About Hester & Cook

Reimagining Tradition

Hester & Cook started in the home basement of husband and wife team Robbie and Angie Hester Cook. What began as Robbie’s inspired idea of crafting a vintage door knob into a bottle stopper soon became the company’s first product, Knobstoppers. Today we are best known for our paper tabletop products designed to help elevate dining experiences.