kurashi-no-techo.pdf (2.1 MB)
I follow Daisuke Ogo, the grandson of the founder of Newman on X and had reached out to him for information on a model I had.
Long story short he also shared this file with me. I have his permission to share it here.
Here is a link to his website
I could swear some of my Newman pencils had date codes under the eraser cap, and at least one of them suggested a manufacture date sometime in 1976. I’ll see if I can find some examples. Newman was certainly not consistent about it.
Update: It turns out the numeric date codes I was thinking of appear on several engraved Platinum pencils; usually two digit year and two digit month although the Riviere line sometimes has numbers like 1557801 that don’t make any sense to me unless those incorporate model numbers, or something. (155-7801?)
The few Newman pencils I have with any manufacturing marks consist of two to four alphanumeric characters, e.g. “CKBF” or “AAI”, and I have no idea how to interpret them.
