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Just been doing some work on a Stephen's Leverfil 270. Anyone know anything about this company?

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Just been doing some work on a Stephen's Leverfil 270.  Anyone know anything about this company?

Stephens' fountain pen ink was very popular in the 1930s -- at least in northern England where I lived -- second only to Swan ink. I used Stephens' black ink quite a lot. I remember seeing a few Stephens' fountain pens in use. The most popular makes of fountain pens sold in England at that time were Mabie Todd (Swan & Blackbird -- by far the most popular), Waterman and Parker.

 

I don't remember any new fountain pens for sale in England from the start of WW2 in 1939 until after the end of the war -- somewhere around 1947 (The Mabie Todd factory was destroyed in the London air raid Blitz of 1940). However, I came across this Ad from a 1942 newspaper that my mother saved ..........

 

http://www.jp29.org/cal19.jpg

 

.......... that shows that at least the Stephens' Company was producing and selling fountain pens (and ink) during the war.

 

Sorry for the weak scan -- it is a small Ad in an old newspaper.

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