We’d like to explain the origin of the name, Lion & Pen. For their financial backing of Alonzo T. Cross’ successful patent infringement suit against Duncan MacKinnon a group of Boston stationers won the right to create The Cross Pen Company of Boston. The logo of that company was a Maltese cross on which was superimposed the golden head of a shaggy lion with a pen in its mouth. The Lion & Pen sign towered over the entrance to Frank Thayer’s store for a few years before being inherited by the stationery firm of Adams, Cushing and Foster. The pen changed several times but the sign was a fixture that became the symbol for the Moore Pen Co. We also understand that the makers of the National Security brand pens in the United Kingdom used a similar logo. But for us, the lion is bringing us a pen so that we may roar too.

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