Can anyone tell me anything about any of these?
Any manufacturing dates? Anything?
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I saw that auction! Really wanted the Pentels and the Cappers!
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what is that Pentel?
Never saw anything like these🤔 (1.90¥ !)
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Yes, please take some more shots of the Pentel’s.
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Will do
I was able to translate it with my camera and it didn’t say a model name on it
I did the same thing. Nothing to identify it.
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Sakura / Tombow ‘Create’ / クリエット collab was between 1971 to early 80s.
Tombow Capper was launched in Nov 1978.
Last picture of 2 Tombows could be SH-500 ‘New Custom’ / ニューカスタム, if the grip has the vertical grooves:
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The grips are smooth on them
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Well, maybe we can extrapolate from ‘smooth grip’ = ‘Custom’, and ‘grooved’ = ‘New Custom’?
Prices also went up, maybe due to the 1979 oil crisis? The New Custom used to be 300 yen:
Note the lack of a hypen in ‘SH 300’
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Very interesting, Patrick and I were talking earlier about your research into these.
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Mostly saving auction pics when I can 
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Definitely
The code on the “custom” is dpc 151.
The code on the new mono graph pencils is dpa 151 and dpb 151
The striped one is dpc152
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Are those vertical stripes on the Tombows etched or printed?
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I can’t feel them but they appear printed
I neeeeeeed to see more of that Pentel.
It has to be an A-something
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These might be separate codes for packaged items. Like how Pentel adds XPP for items sold in stores with separate packs.
XPP would probably be an Orenz pencil (PP####). Usually Pentel just adds an X in front of the model number (if a single pack, multipacks may differ). You can see this in the 2024-2025 Brazil Catalog on page 5.
The above pencils are probably only available in a blister pack, probably to protect the tip.
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