Box
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| Nom de l'objet : | Box |
| Matériaux : | cardboard |
| Numéro d'accession : | BE2006.1.31.1-2 |
| Date de début de production : | 1930 |
| Description : | A pen box with a lid that is off-white with a Christmas decoration of red poinsettias the centre of the box. On one side of the flowers is the manufacturer's name and the pen model "Waterman's Ideal Fountain Pen". On the right hand side is the gifting space "To" and "From". Inside the lid is printed in black "Waterman's Ideal Fountain Pen, L.E. Waterman Company Limited, Montreal. Factory: St. Lambert, P.Q. Trade Mark, Registered in Canada." The bottom of the pen box is off white. Inside is printed "Do not take the gold pen out of the holder. Please read enclosed directions". In the bottom of the box is wool wadding to protect a pen. |
| Fonctions : | Lewis Edson Waterman (1837-1901) is cited as being the inventor of the first capillary feed fountain pen. According to tradition, Waterman worked as an insurance sales man who was thwarted on a policy sale by a faulty pen which only blotted the contract which the client took as an ill omen and decided not to complete the transaction. Waterman decided to improve on the pens available and came up with a fountain pen that had a feed for the ink. He began manufacturing pens in the early 1880s receiving a patent in 1883. L.E. Waterman Company became the world's most successful maker of fountain pens due in part to aggressive advertisements. By the 1920s, Waterman had subsidiaries in Canada (Montreal), France and the U.K. Waterman began to wane in the 1930s and finally in 1959 sold its American interests to Bic. The French subsidiary, JIF- Waterman still keeps the name and traditions of the original company alive today. Www.io.com/~tyrbiter/wa.0.html. |
| Longueur : | 17.8000000000 |
| Largeur : | 3.0000000000 |
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| Ville de l'établissement : | Mississauga |
| Province de l'établissement : | Ontario |
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