Translations:Holland/3/en

The origins of John Holland Pen Company will officially went back to 1862 when John A. Holland, acquired the gold nibs manufacturing company started in 1841 by George Sheppard in Cincinnati, with whom he had been employed by approximately from 1850. John Holland immediately began to expand production at dip pen holders, pencils and boxes. The first experiments with fountain pens are traced back to 1859, with the production of a metal pen, but there is no documentation on the marketing of such an object. The real fountain pen production starts therefore later, probably after the market introduction of the hard rubber, occurred in 1870 by Goodyear, but the company is claiming to have started in 1865.