Gillott's

Gillott's early advertisements, he stated that he made 490,361 gross in 1842, and 730,031 in 1843.

The Story of the Invention of Steel Pens With a Description of the Manufacturing Process by Which They Are Produced Henry Bore

A man of the name of Mitchell having married Gillott's mother, went to Birmingham, and began the cutlery business, the latter removing thither to grind for his father - in-law.

The Story of the Invention of Steel Pens With a Description of the Manufacturing Process by Which They Are Produced Henry Bore

Fifty girls would grind on an average seven thousand gross of pens in a week, and as this correspondence appears to refer to the early part of Gillott's career, it is scarcely possible that such a number of pens were produced weekly at that period.

The Story of the Invention of Steel Pens With a Description of the Manufacturing Process by Which They Are Produced Henry Bore

Stress has been laid upon Gillott's ability 'to forge and grind a knifeblade.'

The Story of the Invention of Steel Pens With a Description of the Manufacturing Process by Which They Are Produced Henry Bore

The earliest experimenter in form and material was Perry, flexibility being the great desideratum; but it is curious to see how world-wide a currency Gillott's name and trade have given to the simplest shape; and still more curious to note how the makers of writing ink and paper have conformed these articles to the requirements of the uses of the steel pen.

The Story of the Invention of Steel Pens With a Description of the Manufacturing Process by Which They Are Produced Henry Bore

Gillott's pen manufactory and the electro-plate works of Messrs. Elkington.

A Tale of One City: the New Birmingham Papers Reprinted from the "Midland Counties Herald" Thomas Anderton 1869

Gillott's eye twinkled with a merry humour, as, from another bit of paper, he produced an emerald larger than the diamond, and a minute afterwards trumped both these with a splendid ruby.

Personal Recollections of Birmingham and Birmingham Men Eliezer Edwards 1853

And now the vizor is up: the lance is in rest (Gillott's iron is the point for me).

Roundabout Papers William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

A cedar-stick of a not uncommon sort, and holding one of Gillott's pens.

Roundabout Papers William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

But as there is nobody magician enough to go out and shoot a fairy or a brownie and bind it by sign and spell to do my bidding, and as I have strong doubts whether my coarse fingers would be able to manage the delicate pen of a humming-bird even if I could have the heart to rob my only remaining pet of its brilliant feathers, I am fain to be content with one of "Gillott's Best," -- no, of "C.R. Sheton's Extra Fine," although I am certain that the sentences following its hard stroke will be as stiff as itself.

The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe