In contrast to the recent pencil and manuscript paper drought I experienced in Central Europe, some time spent in the American Northeast has made up for it. While in Rochester I paid a visit to Eastman, and its bookstore:

There was a nice variety of manuscript paper, folders, and binders (as well as a nice selection of scores from Henle Verlag):

The Carta 18 x 12 staff paper is nice, not least because it is bound on the left rather than at the top:

Not much by way of pencils but to be perfectly honest, I have plenty of pencils. That didn’t stop me however from picking up this pencil extender from an independent art supply store in New York City:

I like that the handle is made of wood, which is similar to the kind of extenders you’d see from the first half of the twentieth century. Though I prefer the Eberhard Faber Clamp extenders, they are a little too short to handle small stubs like this Van Dyke:

The wood handle feels like you’re holding a wood-cased pencil: