Even we are too young to remember Nikkors in the 1950s.
I found and procured these magazine pages by John Wolbarst, 1951 – 1965 Managing editor and, later, Consulting editor of Modern Photography, on the speculation that my R-Nikkor prototype 523002 had been used for the article and perhaps photographed. To my disappointment it has a stock photo with the first prototype 523001, serial number can be read if you squint. It is likely 523001 stayed in Japan and 523002 was sent as a sample to the USA. It may very well have been used to photograph the document in the article.
This sample lens was put away by someone as it is like new, the seller stated her father kept it wrapped in a lens cloth stored inside a lidded leather and golden metal dice cup for many years, she sent the lens inside that dice cup to me.
Here is the article, photographed using the R-Nikkor but just handheld
