Comments: "De La Rue"
the high quality printers of bank motes and stamps in England,
decided to diversify into the pen business around 1900. They
purchased the patent of "George Albert Rowe Sweetser" whose
pen made the whole process of filling with ink a much easier and
less messy affair. Around this time there was a huge growth in sales
and use of fountain pens and they correctly believed that this pen
would give them a huge advantage over the over companies whose pens
had to be hand filled with an eye dropper. The company of "Onoto"
was established in 1905 and the pens were marketed as "Onoto the
pen", one of the few 100% British made pens prior to the First World
War.
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