Delfonics Limited Edition Pencils

Posted on April 20, 2020April 23, 2020 by nimroddfw

In December 2019, I was contacted by another collector about these pencils. They were announced on December 3 on a Delfonics Twitter post. Ten days later they were announced on the Delfonics website. Unfortunately, at this time, they seem to be sold out from the Delfonics website.

It took a couple of orders for him to get me a full set of these pencils, but I finally have a full set of these pencils.

Aside from the text printed on the side and the colors, these are standard P200 pencils. The cutout has the same information (PENTEL on line 1 and JAPAN and the mold mark on line 2), the inner body, clip, tip and cap are all the same.

500723 811 (P203) Light Gray

These pencils do not have a model number printed on them anywhere, so I am using the Delfonics part number from the stickers as the model of these pencils.
The color of this pencils is a light gray, with a medium gray text that just says the size (0.3mm) and DELFONICS.
The barcode for this item is 4516085307928.

500724 124 (P205) Neon Orange (Red)

This pencil is a bright orange with white text.
The barcode is 4516085307935.

500724 807 (P205) Dark Gray

This pencil is a dark gray color with white or light gray text.
The barcode is 4516085307959.

500724 811 (P205) Light Gray

This is the same light gray as the P203 above with the medium gray text.
The barcode is 4516085307942.

500725 807 (P207) Dark Gray

This pencil is the same color as one of the P205s above with the white or light gray text.
The barcode is 4516085307966.

500726 124 (P209) Neon Orange (Red)

Again, this pencil matches a P205 above in color, bright orange with white text.
The barcode is 4516085307973.

If you notice, the sequences of the Delfonics part numbers, the size is the first 6 numbers:
500723 = P203
500724 = P205
500725 = P207
500726 = P209

The last 3 numbers correspond to the colors:
124 = Neon Orange (Delfonics calls this Red)
807 = Dark Gray
811 = Light Gray

Character Pencils – Disney & Popeye

Posted on November 4, 2019October 27, 2019 by nimroddfw

Back in December 2018, another Pentel collector I follow posted on his Instagram a picture of some P200 pencils that I had never seen.

Photo by @crz-riley

These pencils were of Disney characters Mickey Mouse (2 versions), Goofy, Donald Duck and Minnie Mouse. In talking about these pencils and trying to place them in the timeline, we looked at a couple of things about these. First, they did not have any size molded into the bottom of the pencils, which seems to rule out Generation 2 or Generation 3. Next, they have the 2mm guide pipe on the tip, which led me to believe these were a Generation 1 pencils, but in the cutout, they did not say P205 JAPAN #, so we decided that these were Generation 1b pencils, which probably came out in 1972 or so.

After thinking about this a little while though, I came to the conclusion that since these originated in Japan, they were P325, not P205 pencils.

In discussing these pencils with @crz.riley, he mentioned that he had also acquired a Popeye version of one of these, and he sent me pictures of it.

Blog - Character Pencils - P325-KSD-POP - Short Tip - 01

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Photos by @crz.riley

One thing bothered me about the pictures he sent me here is that the label in the second picture, I had always associated with later pencils.

In April, 2019, I finally received my own character pencil.

It is a Disney Minnie Mouse pencil. It seemed to have the same all of the same characteristics as @crz.riley’s pencils, except mine had the size molded into the bottom, so I decided that it probably fell into Generation 2.

Two months later, I received a Popeye pencil, and here is where the first of things started to change.

Around this time, I started to look at the numbers in the Mold Mark and see what range they fall into. I contacted @crz.riley to find out what the marks were on the pencils he had. As I posted in the Mold Marks blog, all Generation 1 pencils fall between 1 and 8, without exception. I also found that all of the Generation 1 pencils used a Beveled Brass Inner Body, whereas both of my pencils use a later Flat Brass Cap Inner Body, and it looks like @crz.riley’s pencils do as well.

When I checked the Mold Marks on my pencils, they were 11 (Minnie Mouse) and 25 (Popeye pleading to Olive Oyl). @crz.riley’s pencils all fell between 19 and 28, and when I checked in my database (and listed in the Mold Marks blog), these numbers all fell in the range for Generation 4.

The last piece of information that reconfirmed my reassessment of what generation these pencils were came from another blogger who posted these.

Photo by @Cuirassier_

These pencils had four different images – Popeye and Olive Oyl, Popeye pleading to Olive Oyl (my version), Popeye fighting Bluto and Popeye with a sea bag. It also shows that there were 6 different color inner bodies that were used: red, pink, orange, yellow, green and blue.

@Cuirassier_ wrote on his blog (translated by Google), “It was written on the bottom of the case as a manufactured product in 1980, so it seems to have appeared briefly before and after 1980.” This definitely pushes these pencils into Generation 4, which would make my Disney Minnie Mouse pencil a Generation 3. It looks like they decided to use the shorter 2mm tips on these limited run pencils. Of course, this fit nicely with the larger triangular label, as I had generally associated it with Generation 4 pencils.

Another photo he posted also clarified the model number of these pencils.

Photo by @Cuirassier_

It looks like these pencils were model number P565 or P565ST2 for the Popeye versions.

So coming down to this, until I learn otherwise, I am calling these pencils (at least for my collection):
P565 – Walt Disney are Generations 3 & 4
P565 – Popeye are Generation 4

I would like to say Thanks to the following bloggers, as I could not have written this blog without their contributions. Please go check them out:

@crz.riley on Instagram – a fellow collector of Pentel P200 and other Pentel pencils.

@Cuirassier_ on Twitter and his own blog – a Korean collector of mechanical pencils over a wide range of brands.

P200, P200 Family

Graph Rock PG200 Pencils

Posted on October 21, 2019October 20, 2019 by nimroddfw

On September 27, 2019, the first day of the Rock in Rio Music Festival, Pentel Brazil announced a new series of pencils, the PG200 Graph Rock. A combination of Pentel GraphGear and P200 Sharp, this pencil takes the tried and true body and insides of the P200 and adds a tip inspired by the Graph 600, Graph 1000 & GraphGear 800.

“Developed especially for Brazil, with a design inspired by Rock and the music festivals that celebrate this sound.

Graph Rock is a unique, lightweight product that blends Graphgear and Sharp P200, our most famous mechanical pencil.

Its technology is Japanese and the same as the P200 Sharp, but the stylized tip gives a special touch to this product.

The glove measures 4mm, ideal for technical use, but also conquers those who use the mechanical pencil in everyday life.

Available in 0.3, 0.5, 0.7 and 0.9 mm gauges, 12-pack units or blister packs.

This month happens in Brazil Rock in Rio and could not have a better date for this release.

So let’s rock and Happy Sales!”

The only true difference between this series of pencils and the regular P200 pencils is the tip.

It is hard to tell from this shot, but the Graph Rock tip is 0.3 mm longer than the standard tip. The sleeve itself is the same length on both.

The color of the pencils is the same as the Metallic Graphite or Anthracite. The part number is taking the standard P200 number and adding the “G”, for Graph, after the “P” in the number. Next the color codes start with an “R”, I assume for Rock, then the color code matching the text.

PG203-RB

This is the one pencil that they messed up on the part number. The text is brown, matching the brown body of a P203E, but for some reason, they did not use the “E”, but chose “B”, I assume because in English it starts with a “B”?

The barcode for the item is 7898419167741.

PG205-RW

In general, they used the color of the P200 body for the text color on these pencils, but obviously, black would not show up to well on a dark gray body, so they used white on this pencil, which is and should be “W”.

The barcode for this item is 7898419167758.

PG207-RC

This one is correctly colored and labeled.

The barcode for this item is 7898419167765.

PG209-RG

The barcode for this item is 7898419167772.

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I posted about getting these pencils in on Reddit and several people asked about what these tips would look like on the Spoke pencils, so I decided to answer their question with pictures.

The top two are Spoke 4 pencils and the bottom two are Spoke 5 pencils. In both cases, I showed them with the standard P205 tip on top and the PG205 tip on the bottom.

I think they look pretty good.

P200, P200 Family

Mold Marks and Price Stickers

Posted on October 14, 2019October 15, 2019 by nimroddfw

I had a post that I have been looking forward to writing, as it is about a set of pencils that I had never seen before December of last year. I found, though, that there was certain information that would make more sense if I first wrote a blog specifically about it. This is that blog.

When I first started collecting the P200 pencils and their variants, I kept track of the letters and numbers that were in the second line of the cutout. But, until this year, I had not put together the ranges of information and how it can help to determine what Generation a pencil is.

Another thing I never really paid attention to, either, was the stickers on the pencils. For the most part, I kept track of the barcodes that were on the stickers, but I had very few of the stickers that had prices on them. As I have collected more of them over the years, I have started to do some more investigation into these.

Mold Mark

First off, when I talk about the Mold Mark, what I am talking about is the letter (sometimes) and the number on the second line of the Cutout. The letter (if there is one) tells what mold is used for the injection of the plastic to make the pencils. These molds have multiple cavities that are identical. In the case of the Pentel P200 type pencil, they have a small plate that they put in the cavities that contains the information in the Cutout, including the company, country of origin and the Mold Mark. Each of these plates has a different number, so that if something goes bad on a specific cavity in a mold, that number can be pulled out of production.

Now, as the generations have changed, so has the range of numbers for these Mold Marks.

Generation 1, 1a & 1b

Above are 2 different Generation 1 Cutouts. The top is Generation 1, when they still had the “P205” molded into the pencil. For Generation 1b, they removed the “P205”.

In my experience, these pencils all have Mold Marks between “1” and “8”.

Generation 2 & 3

Generations 2 and 3 are combined as far as looking at the Mold Marks, because the only difference between these generations is they started printing the text on the side with Generation 3. At the top is a P205 with a Mold Mark of 17 and at the bottom is a P207 with A4.

I find that the P207 pencils all fall in a range of “A1” to “A9”, and all of the other pencils are numbered between “9” and “18”.

Generation 4

With the change to Generation 4, the Mold Marks are generally in the range of “19” to “36”, with a few exceptions. Of the 47 Generation 4 pencils I have handled over the years, 42 fall in the above range. Five pencils (1x P533, 1x PF335, 2x PF337 & 1x PF339) are outliers with marks ranging from “3” to “9”.

Another thing I only noticed this year, is that some of these Generation 4 pencils have a dot after the Mold Mark. A little under half of the Gen 4 pencils I currently own (16 of 38) have this additional mark. At this time, I do not know it’s significance.

Generation 4.5 & 5

Since the Generation 4.5 pencil is made of a Gen 5 outer body and Gen 4 inner parts, this is grouped with the Generation 5 for this.

This generation seems to have the widest range of numbers, falling (again, in my experience) between “25” and “88”. Late in Generation 5, there were some pencils with Mold Marks starting with a “P”, and these go from “P1” to “P16”.

Generation 6

For pencils manufactured in Japan, all of Generation 6 have a letter at the beginning of the Mold Mark.

P203, P207 and PS315 pencils all begin with a “K” with a range of “K1” to “K16”. All other pencils begin with a “B” and range from “B17” to “B48”.

Pencils manufactured in Brazil, do not have a Country of Origin listed, and their Mold Mark ranges between “1” and “8”.

Price Stickers

Most current P200 pencils that come for sale individually have a barcode sticker on them. Some of the Japanese pencils have a price included on them.

P200 for Clena series

P200 for Boys & Girls – Original release at top; Loft release at the bottom. Note the change in barcodes for these two White pencils.

The above labels are all modern Generation 6 labels with a price of ¥300.

But the ones to find are the older Japanese pencils with JIS price stickers. I have pencils with 3 different style of stickers. These seem to change with the generations of the P200 family.

The oldest is a rounded triangle sticker with the size, then Pentel, then the price. These stickers I have found to be on Generation 3 pencils.

These stickers appear to be on Generation 4 pencils, and ~~at least one early Generation 4.5 P323~~ early Generation 4.5 and 5. Again, these stickers have the size, Pentel, then the price. They also then have “JIS S 6013”, which is the JSA (Japanese Standards Association) standard for Mechanical Pencils. Below that is “表示許可 375127”, which translates as “Display Permission 375127” or (I believe) “Permit 375127”. The last item is the official JIS logo.

Now, most of these stickers spell out Pentel in the Latin alphabet, but I have at least one label that has it spelled out in Japanese.

The name “ぺんてる” translates as “Penteru”, according to Google, which is why you will sometimes see Pentel spelled that way on some websites.

Last are the Generation 5 labels that you can find on most of the P320 series pencils with the italic size text written on the side.

All of these are the same basic style, with Pentel on top in red, a black band in the middle with the price, then, in a color block, which, with the exception of the 0.5, use the same color scheme as the older JIS stickers. The 0.5 was red, but is now silver. On this bottom color block, is the size, then the JIS logo.

The 0.9 sticker is slightly different from the other 3, with the Pentel being printed smaller, the price not being a bold font and in a slightly narrower band, then the inclusion of the permit number below the JIS logo. I tend to think that this may be a first iteration of this label as that would make the permit number something that was carried forward and then later dropped, rather than required, not required, then required again.

The above stickers are just from my collection of P200 family pencils. I do have other Pentel pencils with other variations of these, for example, I have a Generation 5 0.5 label that matches the style of the 0.9 above. I also have another Generation 5 style label for a 0.4 mm pencil that does not have the JIS logo included. I may put together another blog post about these at some point, but right now, I am still concentrating on the P200 pencils in this blog.

UPDATES:
2019-10-15 – Added information about the Generation 4 price sticker running into early Generation 4.5 and 5

P200, P200 Family

Limited Edition Iridescent

Posted on September 23, 2019October 4, 2019 by nimroddfw

Back in July of this year, I was informed by another collector of a new set of limited edition pencils coming out of England. In June, Pentel UK released the 3 pencils above and they are now available from a couple of dealers, but I have not found them on the Pentel website.

This pencil is another one of Pentel’s painted pencils, like the marble, the fluorescent and the vintage P200 pencils. The body is molded in black plastic, then painted and sealed in 3 iridescent colors.

P205-IB Morello Mist

This is a sparkly reddish pencil with white text.
The barcode for this pencil is 3474372160018, registered out of EuroPentel.

P205-IC Night Pigment

This is a night blue pencil with gold text.
The barcode for this pencil is 3474372160025.

P205-ID Kiwi Lime

This is a greenish-gold iridescent pencil with white text.
This pencil’s barcode is 3474372160032.

On a side note, I have added a new page at the top of my blog called “For Sale”. There, I will usually have a PDF or some other list of items I have for sale at the time.

P200, P200 Family

P200 for Boys & Girls, part 3

Posted on September 9, 2019September 2, 2019 by nimroddfw

As I have posted before, Pentel Japan released the P200 for Boys & Girls in 2016, then in 2018, Pentel Brazil released their version of the P200 for Boys & Girls in 3 sizes. This year, Brazil released a sixth color for their sets.

Well, also this year, Pentel Japan, working with Loft stores in Japan, released a revised version of their Boys & Girls set. This set makes a minor change to the text on the pencil. Instead of saying “Automatic Pencil P200 0.5 P205”, it now says “Automatic Pencil P205 0.5 P205”, as you can see in the picture above, with the new set in front, and the 2016 set in the back.

Other than that change, and the addition of the letters LF to the end of the part number, nothing else has changed. They are still the same quality pencils that Pentel has always released. All of these pencils still have the same price sticker (300 ¥) and same color names in Japanese, of which the following are my best translations.

P205 – Navy

P205BG-C (back) and P205BG-CLF (front)
2016 Barcode: 4902506333957
2018 Barcode: 4902506367853

P205 – Coral Pink

P205BG-P (back) and P205BG-PLF (front)
2016 Barcode: 4902506333964
2018 Barcode: 4902506367860

P205 – Baby Pink

P205BG-P2 (back) and P205BG-P2LF (front)
2016 Barcode: 4902506333971
2018 Barcode: 4902506367877

P205 – Serenity Blue

P205BG-S (back) and P205BG-SLF (front)
2016 Barcode: 4902506333988
2018 Barcode: 4902506367884

P205 – Off-White

P205BG-W (back) and P205BG-WLF (front)
2016 Barcode: 4902506333995
2018 Barcode: 4902506367891

P200, P200 Family

P200 for BOYS & GIRLS, Parte Dois (Parte Dois)

Posted on August 26, 2019August 24, 2019 by nimroddfw

In September 2018, I wrote a post about the P200 for Boys & Girls that Brazil released in August of that year. Unlike the Japanese release of 2016, Brazil released this set in 3 sizes, with the same colors (albeit different color codes).

In June of this year, Pentel Brazil released a 6th color for this series.

P205-KCPB, P207-KCPB & P209-KCPB

I have been calling this Teal, but it may be more of a Turquoise color. Either way, I don’t know what the color code stands for.

Below are images of the full sets in color code order from top to bottom: P20x-BMPB, P20x-CWPB, P20x-KCPB, P20x-LBPB, P20x-LPPB & P20x-SAPB, with the x designating the diameter.

P205 Set

P207 Set

P209 Set

The IAN/EAN code for the new pencils are:
P205-KCPB 7898419167987
P207-KCPB 7898419167994
P209-KCPB 7898419168007

P200, P200 Family

And it Keeps Growing and Growing…

Posted on July 29, 2019 by nimroddfw

Well, as of last week, I had to expand my collection into case #6. Up until my latest purchases of new pencils that came out around the world in June 2019 (11 of them), I could fit my primary collection in 5 cases. The new pencils would have fit in by count (5 cases will hold 240), but I had no way to keep everything grouped together for display, so the new case.

There are currently 232 pencils in the six display cases, along with the 15 custom pencils in the stands below, plus in the Pentel Salesman Sample Case (above the Knight’s head), there are 13 pencils that have alternate labels or something that makes them just slightly different in markings from the ones in the display cases.

Unintentionally, when I was changing the layout of the pencils in these cases, it wound up that Cases 1 & 2 (bottom and middle right) contain only P205 pencils in their various generations and limited colors. Case 3 (top right) contains all of the P203, P207 & P209 pencils, with their size specific limited colors. Case 4 (top left) contains all of the non-P200 pencils (P30xS, P32x, P533, PF33x, PS315, PS523 & P21x). Cases 5 & 6 contain sets that span sizes in P203, P25, P207 & P209. Except for the first 8 (Japan) in case 5, these all came from Brazil.

Again, something I didn’t really want to do, but had to, to keep it organized was to split the P200 for Boys & Girls pencils into 2 cases, but I moved the Brazil ones to Case 5 and left the Japanese ones in Case 2. It just so happened that they lined up on the middle shelf on the bottom row of each case.

Since I started this blog, back in 2017, my display has grown from 3 cases in March 2017, to 4 cases in June 2017 and then to 5 cases in September 2018. Unless Pentel does something super extravagant next year for the 50th anniversary of the P205, I should have room to grow for another year or two (I hope).

Over the next few weeks, I will showcase the new pencils for 2019.

P200, P200 Family

New Pencils for Old Posts

Posted on July 23, 2019July 23, 2019 by nimroddfw

I have some updates here for five previous blogs, where I have purchased pencils that would have gone with these blogs. In the near future, I will go in and update the previous blogs with these newly acquired, but not necessarily new, pencils.

P205D & P205B Sharp Pencils

Originally published April 29, 2017

P205D (Gen 2) Green

I purchased this pencil about 2 weeks after I published this blog. It looks to be a very clean Generation 2 pencil, although it is possible that this is actually a Generation 3 that has had the printing removed. But I can find no traces of the printing being wiped off or scrubbed off, so I am designating it as a Generation 2.

P205B (Gen 5) Burgandy

I found this pencil 2 months after this blog went up. I am not sure when this was released, but it is not in the 1985 US Catalog, but it is in the 1990-1991 US Catalog, so sometime in that 5 year period.

P207C Pencils

Originally published July 17. 2017

P207C (Gen 1) – Short Tip

Prior to September 2018, when I acquired this pencil, I had assumed that the oldest version of the P207C was the Generation 1A, since “P205” was molded into the cutout, and they stamped the bottom with the size “0.7 m/m”. My assumption was that they did that so that there would be no confusion about what size this really was.

Apparently, I was wrong, and they did release the P207C before they started stamping the size on the bottom. This is a very clean pencil that does not look like it ever had anything stamped on the bottom, so I have designated it as a Generation 1.

P207C (Gen 2) – Short Tip

In August 2017, again, 2 weeks after the blog, I got this pencil, which confirmed that Pentel did carry the Short Tip over to the Generation 2 pencils for the P207C, just like they did for the P205A pencils.

Japanese Older Releases & Oddities

Originally posted December 11, 2017

P325A (Gen 3) – Blank

Prior to this year, I had never found one of these up for sale, although I knew of other people who had one of these. Then 2 months ago, I found it for sale in Japan, when I was also purchasing some other pencils.

Since this series of pencils does not have any printing on the sides, up until Generation 5, and the molded size is a characteristic of Generations 2 & 3, I decided to go a little conservative on the dating and call this one a Generation 3.

Photo from collection of Valter dos Santos Junior of Brazil

The above picture shows a wider variety of the P32x pencils, of which I only have a few.

Pentel Stein P303S / P305S Pencils

Originally posted January 1, 2018

P305S-CW (Gen 6)

P305S-DW (Gen 6)

P305S-PW (Gen 6)

I purchased the above 3 pencils in August 2018, which left me still needing the Orange version of this.

P305S-FW (Gen 6)

In January 2019, I found a full set of these for sale and purchased them, so that I could complete my collection, and also replace the Black version that did not have a sticker, since all of these did.

Custom Pentel P205 Pencils

Originally posted October 14, 2018

As you might be able to tell, I really like the Spoke pencils, especially the Spoke 4. My original purchase had an Anodized Aluminum grip, and my second purchase was of the Titanium (shiny) grip.

All of the Spoke 4 pencils I have purchased have the 8.3 mm size grip, with 0.5 mm lead. All Spoke 4 pencils have an aluminum body.

Spoke 4 Blue Body / Brass Grip

I purchased this in October 2018 because I decided I wanted to try the heaviest grip. Once I received it, I decided to change out the Tip and Cap from an extra Gilded series pencil that I had.

Spoke 4 Black Body / Stainless Steel Grip

In December 2018, I decided to go ahead and get the last of the grip materials that I did not have. I decided on the Black Body, just to give it a clean look.

Spoke 4 Purple Body / Sand-Blasted Titanium Grip

In April of this year, Brian Conti released a new color body and a new grip. I decided I wanted both. This is currently my go-to pencil at work.

And, just to show them all together…

P200 Family, Pentel

What is a color? A color by any other name…

Posted on May 27, 2019 by nimroddfw

I had an issue come up this past week when I was asked to purchase some pencils for someone from another country. He was asking me to purchase some P207 Blue Green Metallic pencils from a retail chain for him, and he would purchase the P207 Mint Green Metallics from a dealer online.

Now, I had no problem with him purchasing some of the pencils from someone else, as I did not have them, and he could not order specific colors from the retail chain, and they are local to me. What I did have a problem with, was him asking me to purchase the Blue Green Metallics, or what I had seen called Mint Green and him ALSO purchasing the Mint Green from someone else. So, I started digging into what he was actually asking for.

To start off with, Pentel assigns color codes to their models of pencils, when there are different colors available. For example, black is code A, so a black P205 is P205A (or sometimes P205-A), and blue is code C, so the standard blue P207 is P207C, etc. Above is the standard color code list that you can find around the internet, and applies to most of the Pentel line, although there are more colors than this, such as code K1 (Mint Green).

The good news is that the pencils he is ordering from this other company were Light Green, so we were not ordering the same colors. The bad news is that the code for these pencils was P207MK1, not P207MK. I went to my pencils and pulled out my pencil from this company, and sure enough, the Light Green was P207MK1. I thought about this for a few minutes and then went to my P209 pencils and looked at the Mint Green pencil, and it is coded P209M-KX.

This got me thinking; had I had these wrong the whole time? And if so, where did I get the information in the first place. So I started to dig into the database of my pencils, and found that the P205 had these pencils as well.

P205 Initial Release

So, back in 2012, Pentel released a limited run of 13 colored P205 pencils. These pencils were released singly, and in retail packages, but in all cases, they had a sticker on them with their barcode and the item code, so I know exactly what color went with what code.
P205M-BX (Red Metallic)
P205M-CX (Blue Metallic)
P205M-DX (Green Metallic)
P205M-KX (Light Green Metallic)
P205M-K1X (Mint Green Metallic)
P205M-PX (Pink Metallic)
P205M-P1X (Rose Pink Metallic)
P205M-SX (Sky Blue Metallic)
P205M-VX (Violet Metallic)
P205M-X (Gold)
P205M-YX (Rose Gold Metallic)
P205M-Z (Silver)
P205-WX (White)

I believe that they added the X to the end of the color to differentiate the first three colors from the Marble pencils that were released in 2010 (P205-MB, P205-MC, P205-MD) and carried it through the rest of the line.

P205 Later Release

In 2016, Pentel re-released 5 of the original colors (with new item codes), plus a new color.
P205MBX (Red Metallic)
P205MCX (Blue Metallic)
P205MDX (Green Metallic)
P205MVX (Violet Metallic)
P205MZX (Silver)

P205MNX (Metallic Graphite)

P207 Initial Release

In 2016, Pentel released 8 colored P207 pencils. In this case, they were only released in retail packaging and did not have any stickers on them, but these colors matched the colors of the P205 pencils released in 2012, so I assigned the same color codes, except for the Metallic Graphite and Silver, which I received with stickers and item codes.
P207M-KX (Light Green Metallic)
P207M-K1X (Mint Green Metallic)
P207M-PX (Pink Metallic)
P207M-P1X (Rose Pink Metallic)
P207M-SX (Sky Blue Metallic)
P205M-YX (Rose Gold Metallic)
P207MN (Metallic Graphite)
P207Z (Silver)

P209 Initial Release

In 2017, Pentel released 4 colored P209 pencils. These were released individually, with stickers having the barcode and item code on them. There was a limited release of retail packaging, but I have not found anyone who carries them locally.
P209M-KX (Mint Green Metallic)
P209M-NX (Metallic Graphite)
P209M-PX (Pink Metallic)
P209M-ZX (Silver)

P207 Later Release

In 2018, 4 colors were released as individual pencils (along with the P207MN & P207Z).
P207MK1 (Light Green Metallic)
P207MP1 (Rose Pink Metallic)
P207MS (Sky Blue Metallic)
P207MY (Rose Gold Metallic)

So, if you look at the above pencils in Bold typeface, these are the ones I am concerned about.

Light Green Pencils

The bottom pencil was the original 2012 release of the P205M-KX, and the top was the 2018 release of the P207MK1. You can see that Pentel flip-flopped the color code.

Mint Green Pencils

They may have changed the color very slightly, but it is still the Mint Green that started out at the bottom with the K1 code for the P205 and ended with the K code for the P209. The P207 never had a sticker for this color, but i wanted to show it in the image.

As the P205 in these colors was never reissued with these colors, and a span of 5 years (2012 to 2017) between when the color codes were made public on the pencils themselves, it looks like someone got confused at Pentel USA and assigned the wrong color code in 2017, and has stayed consistent in later releases.

It does make it a pain, as I have to go back and change the codes in my database on all of the P207 initial release pencils that I have, so they stay consistent with the later release. I never caught this, as I did not go back and check the code against the colors on later pencils vs the P205.

This is not the only time that Pentel has done this, although this second time was between different divisions. In 2016, Pentel Japan released the P200 for Boys & Girls, and in 2018, Pentel Brazil released their versions. But, Pentel Brazil changed the codes to something that I cannot make heads, nor tails out of.

Japan Code	Color	Brazil Code
P205BG-C	Navy	P205-BM
P205BG-P	Coral Pink	P205-SA
P205BG-P2	Baby Pink	P205-LP
P205BG-S	Serenity Blue	P205-LB
P205BG-W	Off-White	P205-CW

I can figure out some of the Brazil codes, such as LP for Light Pink, LB for Light Blue, maybe Cloud White for CW, and (stretching it), Salmon for SA, but I have no clue for what BM would stand for.

But, in any case, after this research, I now know what I am supposed to purchase, and what my friend is purchasing for himself.

Here is a PDF of where I know the different pencils are available in the United States. United States Availabilty of P200 pencils.pdf