Translations:Ink blot/2/en

The story seems to have first appeared in 1921, (and the advertisement alongside that bears witness to an example is from 1924), but was revived with pomp and circumstance in 1934 in celebration, a year late, of the fiftieth anniversary of the company's birth. In fact several subsequent studies (see this article by David Nishimura) have shown that this is one of the classic fake histories 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 this long and documented article by George Rimakis and Daniel Kirchheimer.