Translations:Maruzen/6/en

In 1919 Maruzen launched what would be the longest-running fountain pen line in its history, the "Athena The Pen" (which later became simply Athena). The very first Athena produced were black chased hard rubber pens with either eyedropper filler or security eyedropper (safety pen type) and later were also produced twist filler and lever filler fountain pens. From the mid-1930s are the Athena Renaissance, made of smooth ebonite usually coated with a layer of urushi lacquer, made with twist filler or eyedropper filler. The 1937 is the year when Maruzen took over the factory in which their branded pens had been made until then and thus began their own production.