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The Mentmore was founded as Mentmore Manufacturing Company in 1919 in London, and owes its name to the location of its first office in Mentmore Terrace, Hackney, London. Initial production was o automatic filling models (?) and gold-plated nib.
Roughly in 1925 was introduced the Platignum brand; at this time it seems there has been a kind of reorganization of the company. It seems that the intention was to use the name Platinum, but that this was not registrable as a trademark since it is the name of a metal, so the name was changed slightly and the Platignum Pen Company was created, that began marketing Platignum branded pens, focusing on the low-end production in comparison to the pens distributed with the main brand.
Per un certo periodo i due marchi sono stati prodotti insieme, la Mentmore venne trasformata in società per azioni nel 1930. Non è chiara la situazione, c'è chi riporta che il marchio Mentmore sia stato progressivamente sostituito da Platignum, ma dalla fine degli anni '30 agli anni '50 esiste una ampia produzione di penne con questo marchio. Inoltre un brevetto del 1936 (nº GB-457212) riporta esplicitamente il nome di Spot Pen Company come nuovo nome della Mentmore Manufacturing Company. L'associazione con la produzione di penne Platignum è comunque stabilita almeno fino al 1951.[1]
Around 1939-1941 (?) was produced the Mentmore Paramount model, an imitation of the Waterman's Hundred Year, it was also a plastic resin lever filler pen, and with a decorative transparent plastic bottom similar to that used by Waterman. The pen, however, had more slender lines. Another imitation is the Mentmore 46, an hooded nib button filler pen, which was clearly inspired by the Parker 51.
Today there are as independent brands both Mentmore and Platignum.
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