Translations:Ancora/4/en
Versione del 24 set 2018 alle 02:08 di Piccardi (discussione | contributi)
According to A. Lambrou and others Ancora was founded in 1909 by Giuseppe Zanini,[1] in Sesto Calende, on the shores of the Lake Maggiore. It is not known from what source Lambrou infers such a date, but the official website of the company although whitout indicating any source,[2] talks about the beginning of his activities in 1919, consistent with what is indicated by many others. There are also some invoces from 1941 showing the claim Casa fondata nel 1902, but this probably 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".
- ↑ the company's website is not very reliable, there is 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.