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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Francisco G Kempton, post: 4309872, member: 22714&quot;]I have enlarged the Photos for you.</p><p><br /></p><p>Inkwell contiunued to be used in School until the 1950&#039;s and 1960&#039;s. However the manufacture of desks with Inkwells woudl have stopped in the early 20th century and the ball point pen invented in 1880 by Loud ( he invented the rolling ball point)&nbsp; did not become manufactured until 1930 by Biro, however this pen still needed to be filled with fountain pen ink and which did not dry was almost as messy as a fountain pen. To make the ball point pen work they needed a new ink that had a different viscosity and would dry faster than fountain pen ink. </p><p><br /></p><p>It was not in fact until 1943 that we saw the pen catapult faster than a bullet into production. The RAF purchases 30,000 ball points in the first week that the company started production, this balpoint and fast drying ink was what they desperatley needed in a pen that could be used at high altitudes in the cockpit that would not be effected by high pressure.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is an incerpt.</p><p>László received a patent for his new pen in Britain in 1938, but World War Two put paid to plans to market his new invention. As László and his brother were Jews, they decided to flee Europe in 1941, and emigrated to Argentina. There, László returned to his new invention, helped by a fellow escapee, Juan Jorge Meyne.</p><p><br /></p><p>The first “birome”, as it became known in Argentina, was released in 1943, while war was still raging in Europe and the Pacific. The design piqued the interest of the Royal Air Force (RAF), who put in an order for 30,000: the pens were able to be used by aircrew at high altitude unlike fountain pens, which tended to leak because of the pressure changes. Otherwise, the original pen was little-known outside its South American home – the few original models current all for sale on online auctions all hail from Argentina.</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="5"><b>Gimbels had ordered 50,000 of the new pens and had sold 30,000 of them by the end of the first week</b></font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p>In 1945, two US companies – the Eversharp Co and Eberhard Faber Co – teamed up to licence the new pen for the US market, having spent half a million dollars ($7.2m or £5.6m in today’s money) to sew up the rights to North and Central America. But they were too slow on the draw. American businessman Milton Reynolds was visiting Buenos Aires and was impressed with the new pen – he bought several, and on return to America set up the Reynolds International Pen Company to market a new design.</p><p><br /></p><p>Pre 1940&#039;s Desk. </p><p><br /></p><p>These would not have been made after the war, i am guessing with the ball point pen now commonplace.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am guessing the desk is early 20th century. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]350380[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>FIG2</p><p>DIG&quot;</p><p>#</p><p>[ATTACH=full]350379[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>FIG 3</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]350378[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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