Japanese Office Supply Catalog Pages 1986 to 2013

nimrodd · August 4, 2026, 7:38pm

User @GrPpUi84aS95409 on Twitter has posted photos of pages of ECole Office Supply Catalog. Most of these pages are concerning Pentel, but there are other brands scattered in there as well.

I have taken these pictures and put them together as PDFs and put them in my Pentel Catalog directory ( Dropbox ).

There are 24 catalogs (years missing - 1996, 1998, 2004 & 2006), but I suspect that 1996 may have been merged in with 1995. These have the cover of the catalog and 1 to 3 additional pages of listings.

This has given me a BUNCH of additional information for Pentel pencils, and hopefully it will help out other users.

Thomas · August 4, 2026, 7:46pm

Ok this is what I’ve been wanting hunting for forever. I love this

Heath · August 4, 2026, 10:43pm

This is awesome! 1990 shows the Sailor mini automatic and confirms the S-2 model name!

haruca_st · August 5, 2026, 5:27am

Some of his posts had parts that turned completely black due to an error, so I got them directly via DM!

↓1999

↓2002

drifand · August 5, 2026, 5:44am

Thanks for sharing the missing pages

drifand · August 5, 2026, 5:57am

Based on these listings, it seems SMASH 0.3 (and B1000 ballpoint) was added to the line-up in 1988 before it won the Good Design Award in 1989.

I’m like, peering at the edges of peripheral pages to try and pick out the patterns of other brands like Sailor, Tombow and Zebra

rms2112 · August 5, 2026, 1:12pm

Thank you so much to everyone (but especially @nimrodd!) for sharing this invaluable information! The vintage stuff can really be challenging to research. This info is gold!

nimrodd · August 5, 2026, 1:18pm

I just updated the 1999 and 2002 PDFs in the shared folder above.

I also split the 1995 into 1995 & 1996, based on the pages that were in the original 1995 post. There were pages that duplicated the P1035. On one page it also had the P3035, but the other did not. Also, based on the color of the header and page number sections.