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The ''Ink Blot'' name is usually referred to the story about the origins of the [[Waterman]] Pen Company telling that ''Levis Edson Waterman'' started his own business as a fountain pens manufacturer after losing a lucrative insurance contract caused by an ink loss from a malfunctioning pen. According to this story instead of getting angry the enterprise founder was interested in that object, discovering the reason for the malfunctioning and solving it by creating narrow channels on the feeder. The success of his invention, tested by his friends and acquaintances would have driven him to create his company.

The ''Ink Blot'' name is usually referred to the story about the origins of the [[Waterman]] Pen Company telling that ''Levis Edson Waterman'' started his own business as a fountain pens manufacturer after losing a lucrative insurance contract caused by an ink loss from a malfunctioning pen. According to this story instead of getting angry the enterprise founder was interested in that object, discovering the reason for the malfunctioning and solving it by creating narrow channels on the feeder. The success of his invention, tested by his friends and acquaintances would have driven him to create his company.

In realtà diverse ricerche successive (vedi [http://www.vintagepens.com/ink_blot.htm questo articolo] di David Nishimura) han dimostrato che si tratta di una delle classiche bufale montate ad arte dai reparti pubblicitari in quanto non esiste alcuna traccia di questi fatti in una storia ufficiale dell'azienda pubblicata nel 1904. Nonostante questo la storia è ancora presente in parecchi testi e libri sulle stilografiche. Per una ricostruzione molto più approfondita ed accurata della storia iniziale della [[Waterman]] si può fare riferimento a [http://home.comcast.net/~kirchh/Misc/Blotting_Out_the_Truth.pdf questo dettagliatissimo e documentato articolo] di George Rimakis e Daniel Kirchheimer.

In fact several subsequent studies (see [http://www.vintagepens.com/ink_blot.htm this article] by David Nishimura) have shown that this is one of the classic fake history created by advertising departments, because there is no record of these facts in a company's official history published in 1904. Despite this, the  ''Ink Blot'' fake  history is still present in many texts and books on fountain pens. A deep and detailed [[Waterman]] early history reconstruction can be found in [http://home.comcast.net/~kirchh/Misc/Blotting_Out_the_Truth.pdf this long and documented article] by George Rimakis and Daniel Kirchheimer.

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