High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Eberhard Faber GmbH was founded in 1922 in Neumarkt, near Nuremberg, Germany, as a pencil factory. It was taken over in 1978 by Staedtler, a stationery company with global presence. Eberhard Faber`s popular US writing pencil operations, founded at New York City in 1861 by John Eberhard Faber (6 December 1822 – 2 March 1879), were acquired by Faber-Castell USA in 1994 before being bought by Newell (Sanford) and eventually rolled into the Paper Mate brand .