== History == [[File:Nettuno-Collection-Serie-Capped.jpg|thumb|A series of pens of different periods]] First traces of the [[Nettuno]] origin date back to 1911, date of asketch for a flyer advertising showing the brand with the Neptune fountain in Piazza Maggiore in Bologna, chosen as its symbol by ''Umberto Vecchietti'', founder of the company. The official founding of the company, however, is later: from the archives of the Chamber of Commerce of Bologna the date is in fact 1916, <ref>at least as reported by Letizia Jacopini, in ''La storia della stilografica in Italia 1900-1950''.</ref> and this fact makes an excessive claim the use the title ''"by 1911"'', reported in the contemporary reissues of some of this brand models. | == History == [[File:Nettuno-Collection-Serie-Capped.jpg|thumb|A series of pens of different periods]] First traces of the [[Nettuno]] origin date back to 1911, date of asketch for a flyer advertising showing the brand with the Neptune fountain in Piazza Maggiore in Bologna, chosen as its symbol by ''Umberto Vecchietti'', founder of the company. The official founding of the company, however, is later: from the archives of the Chamber of Commerce of Bologna the date is in fact 1916, <ref>at least as reported by Letizia Jacopini, in ''La storia della stilografica in Italia 1900-1950''.</ref> and this fact makes an excessive claim the use the title ''"by 1911"'', reported in the contemporary reissues of some of this brand models. |