European Oddballs

A lot of collectors here in the Americas (North and South) have seen the leftmost pencil (P205-GA Carbon Fiber) in the above image, but very few have seen the other five.

I will talk a little about the barcodes associate with these pencils in the post below.  If you would like to know more about barcodes, you can check out my previous post about this subject at https://nimrodd.net/2017/12/04/barcodes/.

P205-MN Metallic Graphite (Blank)

This color code is also called Anthracite in other areas of the world. The barcode on this pencil is 3474372050029. This barcode is registered out of EuroPentel in France.  I received it back in April of this year from a friend in Brazil.

P205-MTA Matt Black (Blank)

This pencil, along with the next two were purchased from http://www.artwaremail.ch/ out of Switzerland when I made my purchases of the Retro and Neon P205 sets, back in March 2017. The barcode on this pencil is 3474372050944, again registered out of EuroPentel.

P205-WN White (Blank)

This pencil’s barcode is 7610924040155.  This barcode is not registered to Pentel, but is apparently from a block where you can just purchase individual barcodes from a block out of Switzerland.

P207-MTA Matt Black

Unlike the P205-MTA Matt Black, this one has the standard text on the side.  The barcode is 3474372207034 and is registered out of EuroPentel.

P205-GA Carbon Fiber

I picked up this pencil from https://www.jetpens.com in 2013.  I really like the look of the interwoven carbon fibers and for the longest time, I assumed that it had been distributed from Japan, but according to the barcode (3474372050609), it is registered out of EuroPentel.

As of this blog post, it is still available from Jetpens and elsewhere.

 P207-GA Carbon Fiber

This rarity also came from Artwaremail in Switzerland, and was the last of their stock.  I had never seen, nor heard of this pencil before they said that they had this.  It is the same carbon fiber body as the P205-GA and the barcode is 3474372207010, registered out of EuroPentel.