Bob Truby is a dedicated pencil collector. His online gallery features thousands of pencils from more than 100 different pencil brands. From Bob's welcome message:
As both an art teacher and a pencil collector, I desire this site to be a visual encounter with the incredibly diverse world of brand name pencils. I hope you will be amazed at the scheer number of pencil brands once produced in the USA and abroad. Sadly those days are over and the craftsmanship, skill and pride once put into the ordinary pencil is but a thing of the past. This site salutes two USA Pencil Companies: General and the Musgrave Pencil Companies for their continued efforts to supply our basic writing needs.
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I didn't know pencils had "Scheer numbers". Are they related to the hardness of the lead?
This reminds me of a project I did for a Net.Art class in college. I organized and categorized all of the pens in my possession and included a small biography associated with each pen. As you go through the site, you start to see connections and can draw conclusions about my own persona through my pens. Here is the link if you are interested (and I do not blame you if you aren't): http://kurtmac.com/pens/index.html
If you like that and you ever did technical drawing then you might enjoy the Lead-holder museum:
http://www.leadholder.com/
If pencils are your thing - you might want to take a look at the teeny tiny pencil lead sculpture of Dalton Ghetti.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/11/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/11ctpeople.html?fta=y
So THAT'S where all my pencils have ended up over the years!