36, Waterman's Mechanical Pencils In 1904,

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Here are two trademarks that were applied for and issued well before the fact. Trademark no. 69,612, L. E. Waterman Co., "Fountain Pens And Pencils", June 23, 1908, used since Sept 1, 1904, is for the familiar globe logo with lines of longitude and latitude and the word "Ideal" printed in block capitals across the equator, and said to be used on "fountain pens and pencils". What? A Waterman's pencil in 1904? No, they were just covering all the bases, and foreseeing pencil-making someday in the future. Trademark no. 71,855, trademarked by William I. Ferris for L. E. Waterman Co., "Safety-Clips For Fountain-Pens And Pencils", Dec 25, 1908, used since Sept 1, 1904, is not the trademark for the word "Clip-Cap", but for another version of the globe logo with the word "Ideal" at the equator, and again a Waterman's pencil in 1904! The mark was used on the cap clip in Ferris's US patent no. 800,141. Also see Lion & Pen topic 1161 about 1904 mechanical pencils, if the website ever comes back. When Waterman's finally did produce their first pencils in the early 1920s, they had no clip, no trim band, since the fountain pen caps had no bands yet either, and no metal tip to protect the writing point, and they looked like this.

 

George Kovalenko.

 

 

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