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Paper Mate Pens - Matchbook

How did the Paper Mate Ballpen come to be? Read on... In 1943 the Biro brothers set up a ball pen manufacturing plant in Argentina. Their first design failed because it relied on gravity to feed...

REMMIE LeROY ARNOLD - on a Matchbook

You ask, "Why include Remmie LeRoy Arnold running for Governor of Virginia in a fountain pen blog?" Well, read on, by the second paragraph you will know. Read more and I’m sure you’ll say to yo...

Matchbooks - Bruno's PEN and Pencil

[caption id="attachment_2335" align="alignleft" width="360"] Bruno PEN and PENCIL Matchbook Front[/caption] Bruno’s Pen and Pencil was located on "Steak Row" in New York City, at 205 East 4...

Fisher Space Pen - Salem Cigarettes

Taken to the Moon in 1969 During the first NASA missions the astronauts used pencils. For Project Gemini, for example, NASA ordered mechanical pencils in 1965 from Tycam Engineering Manufac...