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[[Image:AikinLambert-CapitolCabinet-Capped.jpg|left|200px|thumb|[[Aikin Lambert]]  ''[[Capitol Cabinet]]'' model]]

[[Image:AikinLambert-CapitolCabinet-Capped.jpg|left|200px|thumb|[[Aikin Lambert]]  ''[[Capitol Cabinet]]'' model]]

Although [[:File:1903-08-Aikin-Lambert-Mercantile.jpg|this advertisement]] is showing a significant link with the [[Wirt]] (they were dealers at least until August 1903), in the second half of the first decade of the century [[Aikin Lambert]] was influenced and maintained very close relations with its neighbour [[Waterman]], on behalf of which it produced the mechanical pencils, and from which it was absorbed in the period between [[1906]] and [[1911]], becoming in practice a subbrand.<ref>The complete acquisition would take place in the first half of 1911 according to the detailed historical reconstruction of David Nishimura, reported [http://vintagepensblog.blogspot.it/2012/12/waterman-and-aikin-lambert.html here], we will refer to its dates, considered more reliable than the generic reference to the 1920s made [https://web.archive.org/web/20130613224607/http://www.pensandwatches.com/_pages/pen_company_photos/Aikin_Lambert_pen_company.htm here] and the reference to 1915 made [http://web.archive.org/web/20120229121047/http://www.kamakurapens.com/Manhattan/AikinLambert.html here].</ref> However, production continued for some years: at the beginning were produced hard rubber models that were substantially identical to the analogues of [[Waterman]], but also models in celluloid of good quality.

Although [[:File:1903-08-Aikin-Lambert-Mercantile.jpg|this advertisement]] is showing a significant link with the [[Wirt]] (they were dealers at least until August 1903), in the second half of the first decade of the century [[Aikin Lambert]] was influenced and maintained very close relations with its neighbour [[Waterman]], on behalf of which it produced the mechanical pencils, and from which it was absorbed in the period between [[1906]] and [[1911]], becoming in practice a subbrand.<ref>The complete acquisition would take place in the first half of 1911 according to the detailed historical reconstruction of David Nishimura, reported [http://vintagepensblog.blogspot.it/2012/12/waterman-and-aikin-lambert.html here], we will refer to its dates, considered more reliable than the generic reference to the 1920s made [https://web.archive.org/web/20130613224607/http://www.pensandwatches.com/_pages/pen_company_photos/Aikin_Lambert_pen_company.htm here] and the reference to 1915 made [http://web.archive.org/web/20120229121047/http://www.kamakurapens.com/Manhattan/AikinLambert.html here].</ref> However, production continued for some years: at the beginning models in ebonite were produced that were substantially identical to the analogues of [[Waterman]], but also models in celluloid of good quality.

In the following years the quality of the [[Aikin Lambert]] pens began to degrade progressively, and in the '30s the production was substantially limited to the production of the cheapest lines of pens; the prestige of the brand was thus progressively reduced until its definitive disappearance.

In the following years the quality of the [[Aikin Lambert]] pens began to degrade progressively, and in the '30s the production was substantially limited to the production of the cheapest lines of pens; the prestige of the brand was thus progressively reduced until its definitive disappearance.