Waterman vs. Watermans

[6pound]

What's the difference between a Waterman and a Watermans??

 

:embarrassed_smile: (noob question, I know...)

 

It's just that I see so many listings on various auction sites and others that say 'waterman' and when you see the photo it shows that markings on the pen that reads "Watermans". I assume that they are not one and the same thing...

[ANM]

I think it is just an age thing. They are all Waterman, just the older ones are marked Waterman's. Like older Sheaffer pens are marked Sheaffer'S

[Pensee]

What's the difference between a Waterman and a Watermans??

 

:embarrassed_smile: (noob question, I know...)

 

It's just that I see so many listings on various auction sites and others that say 'waterman' and when you see the photo it shows that markings on the pen that reads "Watermans". I assume that they are not one and the same thing...

 

Waterman's is usually referring to themselves in advertising, or just plural for more than one! :roflmho:

 

--Bruce

 

 

[Johnny Appleseed]

The company was the L.E. Waterman Co., but I am not sure what the name is now.

 

A pen would be a Waterman pen, or a "Waterman's Ideal Fountain Pen". "Waterman's" was a possessive used as a modifier for the trademark "Ideal".

 

Like older Sheaffer pens are marked Sheaffer'S

 

The switch from marker pens as "Sheaffer" rather than "Sheaffer's" happened when the pen was sold by the Sheaffer family to an outside group of investors in the 1960s. They switched was because the company was no longers Sheaffer's company.

 

John

Edited January 16, 2009 by Johnny Appleseed

[lapis]

It's all one and the same thing.

Waterman is Waterman.

Watermans is the plural, and

Waterman's is the genitive.

 

That's all.

 

Paul

[6pound]

:roflmho: Bruce...

 

thanks everyone