What is the highest and lowest New Balance shoe number?

Question

Did they start numbering the shoes from 1?

Answer 1

You are correct New Balance did start at 1 and went from there, the highest will always be the latest release/

Answer 2

With all the numbers listed in that article I don't think it started with 1.

Quote from link listed in source:

"New Balance holds onto its history through the numbering system that owes its origins to a man named Arthur Heckler. Instead of naming the different shoe models, Heckler chose to number them because he wanted to place an emphasis on the New Balance philosophy, not any one particular shoe. To this day, that philosophy is upheld as model numbers are advanced to incorporate new technologies and designs."