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A Brief History of Onoto Pens78

A Brief History of Onoto Pens

In the autumn of 1905 Thomas De La Rue & Co Ltd of 110 Bunhill Row, London EC1 launched the first self filling fountain pen guaranteed not to leak - the Onoto Patent Self-Filling Pen. It was unique. .A new plunger filling system put an end to clumsy...

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Ink-redible - the fountain pen that writes after 70 years on the sea bed79

Ink-redible - the fountain pen that writes after 70 years on the sea bed

Onoto British-made pens have a long-standing reputation for quality, but a recently discovered example of one of their earliest pens takes the prize for outstanding durability – it writes perfectly after...

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