Anyone Heard Of A Pelikan 100 Danzig ?

[MarkTrain]

konis,

 

Thank you the newspaper article should be easy to translate now.

 

I am not however able to open the link to the archive page.

 

Rick may be able to.

 

Again, thank you,

 

Rafael

You need to load the djvu plugin:

 

http://www.caminova.net/en/downloads/download.aspx?id=1

[MarkTrain]

 

Hello everyone.

Wrong wrote the date of publication.

This is earlier than I gave.

"Gazeta Handlowa" No. 67 dated 21.03.1930 page 6.

Link to the archive of publication:

http://ebuw.uw.edu.pl/dlibra/applet?mimetype=image/x.djvu&sec=false&handler=djvu&content_url=/Content/12869/directory.djvu

And high-resolution photo.

http://images55.fotosik.pl/14/928e1fe1c3b34e8cm.jpg

 

best regards

 

Ok,

 

I ran this through a OCR program, then corrected all the misreads to get the Polish text:

 

Dzięki doskonałej jakości wyrobów firmy Gunther Wagner w Gdansku, rozwój tego przedsiębiorstwa postępuje szybkiemi krokami naprzód. Nowoczesne urządzenia techniczne pozwalają na fabrykację w Gdańsku artykułów nie ustępujących w ni­czem wyrobom zagranicznym, przyczem za­znaczyć należy, te firma Gunther Wagner wszystkie swe wyroby, począwszy od atra­mentu aż do skomplikowanych przyrządów do powielania, wyrabia w Gdańsku. Wszel­kie surowce z wyjątkiem nielicznych chemi­kalii, których w' kraju dostać nie można, sprowadza firma Gunther Wagner z Polski. Ostatnio rozpoczęła firma Gunther Wagner z doskonałym wynikiem fabrykację wie­cznych piór „Pelikan", będących ostatnim wyrazem doskonałości w tej dziedzinie. Wieczne pióro „Pelikan' 'jest zaopatrzone w stałą pompkę ssącą, dzięki czemu zbędne są pomocnicze pipetki, używane zwykle przy innych wiecznych piórach. Samonapeł­niacz „Pelikan" posiada przezroczysty rezerwoar na atrament, umożliwiający stale kontrolowanie zapasu atramentu. Dalsza za­letą tego pióra jest że wystarcza jeden obrót i już można pisać bez żmudnego wykręcania pióra. Kapsla jest tak sporządzona, że przy zamykaniu złote pióro gładko się wsuwa. Wieczne pióro „Pelikan" można nosić w kieszeni w każdem położeniu, bez zachowy­wania ostrożności, gdyż dzięki hermetycz­nemu zamknięciu pióro to nie przepuszcza ani kropli atramentu. Firma Gunther Wagner rozwinęla produkcję ta na wielką ska­lę bo wyrabia aż 1500 piór dziennie, Warto jest zaznaczyć, że przy fabrykacji wieczne­go pióra „Pelikan" stosuje się 80 maszyn pomocniczych.

 

Putting this into google gave a garbled translation and with the help of a polish dictionary and consultation with a Polish speaker I get:

 

Thanks to the excellent quality of the products coming from the firm Günther Wagner in Gdansk, the development of the company is progressing in quick steps forward. Modern technical equipment allows the fabrication of products in Gdansk that are not inferior in any way to the qualities of those from foreign markets, on the contrary it must be noted, the firm Günther Wagner produces all its products, from ink to sophisticated instruments to reproduce, in Gdansk. All materials with the exception of a few chemicals, which in this country you cannot get, the firm Günther Wagner gets from Poland. Lately the firm Gunther Wagner started with the excellent fabrication of "Pelikan" fountain pens, which are the last expression of excellence in this field. The “Pelikan” fountain pen is provided with a constant suction pump, eliminating the need for auxiliary droppers that are commonly used in other fountain pens. Self filling "Pelikan" has a transparent ink resevoir, which allows constant monitoring of ink supply. A further advantage of this pen is that it is enough for one turn (of the cap to remove it) and you can write without having to tediously unscrew the pen. The cap is so made that when you close it the gold pen (nib?) slips in smoothly. You can carry the fountain pen "Pelikan" in your pocket at any position, without keeping careful because the hermetically sealed pen does not let out a single drop of ink. The Gunther Wagner company has developed the production of this on a large scale as all of 1500 pens per day are produced, it is worth noting that the fabrication of the "Pelikan" fountain pen uses 80 auxiliary machines.

 

Sentences two, three and the last indicate that pretty much everything was made from scratch in Gdansk

[Rafael Macia]

Wow .. great work ! ..

Thank you for moving this forward.

[kawuska]

It isn't impossible that the above mentioned citation from "Gazeta Handlowa" was sort of "sponsored article" ordered by Gunther Wagner. Here are some subsequent articles from Gazeta Handlowa (google translation)



Gazeta Handlowa
January 18th 1932

"Is a division of Gdansk Gunther Wagner a polish firm?"
For a long time we get numerous inquiries, wether products branded "Pelikan" are domestic
articles ? After a thorough examination of the thing by Polish Chamber of Stationery
Industry and Trade we got the information that the brand products "Pelikan" must be
considered as of foreign origin. The Central Board League of Economic Self-Sufficiency
categorically declares as follows: League has always recognized and recognizes Gdansk
factory "Pelikan" for the company completely foreign, for one), the company
Gunther Wagner although partially producing in Gdansk is the branch of factory in Hanover,
second) is owned by a German citizen of Reich, and the profits are transfered abroad, what
is harmful for polish economy.
Restraining from giving too hasty oppinion of this we asked in this regard Union of
Producers of Stationery Branch represented by Mr. director Bartkiewicz that
stated as follows: Writing instruments with the "Pelikan" have to be considered as
obviously foreign despite the fact that the branch factory in located in Gdansk.
Gunther Wagner in Hannover supplies products to our market with labels in Polish. Branch in
Gdansk is advertised on Polish territory directly by headquarters factory in Hanover, which
is proven by the fact that all advertising materials sent in envelopes from Gdansk are
marked with Hanover stamp, where they are printed. And besides it was also found that
executives of Gdansk is wholly dependant subsidiary, from its headquarters in Hanover.
Distributing goods branded "Pelikan" on polish market is greatly facilitated
by, the fact that Free City of Gdańsk is located in one duty zone with the rest of Poland.
It is also no doubt that the entire profit of the branch captured in Poland
is exported abroad Gdansk therefore fulfills the role of the pump, which draws all the
profits to Germany and Poland is paying tribute of german economic benefits."

It was already in 1927, that
the presidium of the Council of Ministry issued a prohibition act to ban trade of stationery and writing instruments of foreign origin in order to protect polish market and producers.
"The Regulation has been repeated in all departments of the Ministry so someone not respecting regulations could have strictly bear disciplinary responsibility."


Gazeta Handlowa
June25th 1932

"The Ministry of Treasury sends us the following piece of information:
Polish Border Guard revealed lately scandal of the German Gunther Wagner Gdansk, which has
been massively sending to Poland stationery and writing instruments, imported from Germany
on the so-called "Gdansk quotas" (favorable duty conditions) then exported to Poland as
goods of allegedly Gdansk origin. Because in this case manipulation of Gdansk was clear
the masked smuggling, Border Guards made numerous revisions of stationery warehouses in
Warsaw and other cities and took the goods, coming from this company."


These affairs must have taken place before because already in april 1932 Gazeta Handlowa
informs:

"Polish factory Gunther Wagner
Hanover branch in Gdansk, lately discredited with revisions and
seizures of their products in stationery stores in Poland (which results that today
no institution, no consumer wants to buy their products) begun to apply the new methods of
trading in our market, aiming to mistake Polish consumer pressing into its hands their
products, in spite of his will.Well, agents of Pelikan brand, today fool merchants with
the supply of various stationery materials from factory Gunther Wagner ( lacquer, printing
plates and inks to duplicators,ribbons, tapes etc) but without any Gunther
Wagner and Pelican identity, instead with either the merchant logo, or without any company,
or with anonymous name unfamilar to anyone such as "Samin".
It is sad to say, however, that there are commercial companies in Poland which order such
unbranded goods and then try to deliver it to different State institutions and recommend
to consumers, as "Polish articles", thereby helping "Pelikan" to yet penetrate to the
polish consumer even against his will and this way fight against Polish native industry
and spreading in Poland unemployment and poverty among the masses of working people."

It is said that Gunther Wagner Gdansk (as well as many other firms of that time) practiced
importing parts and semi-finished products to skip duties and that's why branches in
Gdansk, Wienna, Barcelona, Bukarest were set.
In 1934 Germany and Poland signed a treaty of bilateral trade which initially mend the
situation but it did not last long..

 

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Pelikan advertisement from 1939 "Arkady".