Translations:Ancora/4/en

The Ancora date of foundation is not known with certainty and there are conflicting versions.^[1] According to A. Lambrou, it was founded in 1909 by Giuseppe Zanini, in Sesto Calende, on the shores of the Lago Maggiore, but it is not known from which source Lambrou infers such a distant date; on the company's official website, although sources are not indicated again, the origin of the company was reported to 1919 in Bologna,^[2] which is consistent with what has been indicated by others.^[3] Finally, some invoces from 1941 are showing the claim Casa fondata nel 1902, but this almost certainly refers to the begininng of Zanini commercial activities, not to Ancora foundation.

↑ there is some uncertainty also about the surname of the founder, because there are documents reporting both the Zanini and the Zannini names, but no convincing explanation of the appearance of an extra "n".
↑ but the company's website is not very reliable, there was a big error in the Zanini birth date, badly transcribed in 1897 when the birth certificate posted on the website (no more present) showed the correct date of 1879, and after that it talked about a production of pens called... Aurora.
↑ The main reference is, however, the Letizia Jacopini book in which various documentary evidences are reported.

[1] there is some uncertainty also about the surname of the founder, because there are documents reporting both the Zanini and the Zannini names, but no convincing explanation of the appearance of an extra "n".

[2] ut the company's website is not very reliable, there was a big error in the Zanini birth date, badly transcribed in 1897 when the birth certificate posted on the website (no more present) showed the correct date of 1879, and after that it talked about a production of pens called... Aurora.

[3] The main reference is, however, the Letizia Jacopini book in which various documentary evidences are reported.

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