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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 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 [https://danielkirchheimercom.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/blotting-out-the-truth-v40-0.pdf this long and documented article] by George Rimakis and Daniel Kirchheimer.

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 [http://www.vintagepens.com/ink_blot.htm 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 [https://danielkirchheimercom.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/blotting-out-the-truth-v40-0.pdf this long and documented article] by George Rimakis and Daniel Kirchheimer.