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The company's origins date back to the activity of Nisbet MacNiven that in 1770 founded a factory in Balerno, near Edinburgh, the city where activities on stationery production were transferred in 1788. In 1840 John and Donald Cameron joined the company that became the MacNiven & Cameron Ltd. Duncan Cameron is credited with the design of the Waverley nib produced by Gillot Steel Pens since 1864 and roughly until the mid-70s of the 19th century. The company acquired a factory in Birmingham in 1900 and continued to produce nibs working in the stationery products market up to the closure of the factory in 1964.
The company entered the fountain pens market in the early 1900s (at least since 1907, as evidenced by this advertisement in the Strand Magazine), repurposing a fountain pen with a Waverley nib, covered by a patent from the same year (nº GB-190708313) named "Waverley Fountain Pen". The same advertisement shows that the company is headquartered in London with branches in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Paris.[1]
L'azienda iniziò a commercializzare penne con il proprio nome a partire all'incirca dal 1916, come testimoniato dalla pubblicità a fianco, con l'invenzione di un particolare sistema di caricamento a pinzetta (brevetto nº GB-101241 dello stesso anno), che vennero chiamate "Cameron Safety Self Filler". Queste penne vennero realizzate in diverse dimensioni, e, riprendendo la caratteristica delle precedenti "Waverley Fountain Pen" erano anche caratterizzate dalla possibilità di montarci diverse varianti di pennini speciali derivati direttamente dagli equivalenti diffusi nel mondo dei pennini da intinzione.
The same pens were distributed in France at the end of World War I from Kirbie, Bird C. based in Rue Auber, 5 in Paris, with the name SAR Cameron (where however SAR is nothing more than an acronym for Safety Auto Remplissage). The company apparently remained active until 1964, even if someone is reporting an earlier end to production.
External references
- [1] Page about the company on Wikipedia
- [2] Page about the company on Grace Guide
- [3] Page about the company, disappeared from current site pages
- [4] Unreachable link on the discontinued Kamakura Pens site, remains for reference
Notes
- ↑ The company is cited by Lambrou for producing Waverley pens, but the name appears to have been used initially only for the models named Waverley Fountain Pen, because of the eponymous type of nib, and not as a stand-alone brand.