The first patent for a refillable pencil with lead-propelling mechanism was issued to Sampson Mordan and John Isaac Hawkins in Britain in 1822.
After the Second World War the company merged with Sampson Mordan Ltd whose founder had patented the first mechanical pencil in 1822.
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