Secretary Fountain Pen c. 1944-1945

The Secretary fountain pens shown here are stamped Newark Pen Company, which merged with the Camel Pen Company at some time between 1938 and 1944, and then changed its name to the Secretary Pen Company, Inc. probably in 1948. Clinton I. Prouty, previously vice president of the DeWitt-LaFrance Company of Cambridge, Massachusetts, makers of Superite pens and pencils, founded and served as its first president. The first factory was in Newark, New Jersey at 276 N. J. Railroad Avenue, with its sales office in New York City in the Bush Terminal Sales Building, a thirty story building at 130 West 42nd street. This story includes Secretaries, Camels, branding and company name changes, patent infringement lawsuits, tax evasion, and floaty pens and pencils!

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