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The Great War and the Trench Pen:Part II
PEN WORLD
|December 2022
The first trench pens did the job and did it well, but what would life be without competition?
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Having seen the trench pen evolve from an everyday civilian safety pen to a pen that fitted like a glove into the routine of soldiers in the trenches of World War 1, let us turn to some of the competitors that went off to war after the Bicks pellet pen.
A somewhat more sophisticated version came from Mabie Todd & Company of New York City, New York (U.S. Patent No.
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