The ''SAFIS'' origins have not been very clear for a long time and its place in the market with various brand names that refer to this company has been uncertain. But recent findings have found documentary references that a company with the name ''Società Anonima Pennini King'', holder of the [[The King]] trademark was founded in Turin, June 23, 1926, and further evidence shows that it was later forced to change its name in ''Società Anonima Fabbrica Italiana Stilografiche'', probably as a result of the policy of names Italianisation imposed by the fascist regime. | The ''SAFIS'' origins have not been very clear for a long time and its place in the market with various brand names that refer to this company has been uncertain. But recent findings have found documentary references that a company with the name ''Società Anonima Pennini King'', holder of the [[The King]] trademark was founded in Turin, June 23, 1926, and further evidence shows that it was later forced to change its name in ''Società Anonima Fabbrica Italiana Stilografiche'', probably as a result of the policy of names Italianisation imposed by the fascist regime. |