Does anyone know what model this pencil is?
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There are too many variations of this… but the 88 catalog that @pearsonified shared lists a 700 yen HY-70S ‘Young Conbi’ (Conbi = コンビ = short for Convenient’) with similar clip, cone and stepped ring. The catalog shows a metal upper and plastic lower.
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The model before the price increase in the early years should be called H-305.
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Thanks.
Do you know what catalog year that image is from?
and do you know if they were sold outside of Japan?
I don’t know the specific model number, but I do know the pipe slide pictured here is something of an outlier in the Pilot catalog.
There are similar-looking pencils that have squarish barrels near the end cap, but these all have fixed sleeves.
Other sliding sleeve models are either short with a flange near the end cap or else 0.3mm with a “diamond ring” joint (the joint piece is faceted and gives off a sparkle).
But this particular sliding sleeve is 0.5, all black, and does not have the squarish barrel near the end cap. I do not think it’s precisely the H-305 shown in @tfhs’ catalog image above, as the nose cone includes 2 grooves, and the barrel does not feature the “0.5” etching above the ring joint.
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So I think it’s an earlier model, and the relationship between the two is similar to H-2005 and H-3005
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I think it does include the etching – very faint, but I can just make it out…
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This is the most important link in pencildom right now 
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I love seeing the displays on the last few pages.
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Terrific resource! Nice to see clear, well aligned image captures of the catalog pages. Are there more years available for PILOT?
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The father and son wearing pilot caps… 
Also… “wytebord”? Where in the heck did they come up with that!
Did Nancy actually loan her mug for the photo shoot? 
But I have to say… I’m having a VERY hard time believing this one:
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Pretty sure you can recreate this one for us.
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Because you can’t trademark “Whiteboard”.
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No more PILOT. But there are also TOMBOW and some Chinese catalogs.
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Oh my.
See you all in a few days.
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I don’t understand why there would be an impetus to use a trademark here. “White Board” is just another product category, AFAIK. Making up a name like that just looks… weird!