The Reynolds Rocket ballpoint pen
Businessman, Milton Reynolds formed the Reynolds International Pen
Company, producing the first ballpoint pens and beating Eversharp to
market. It went on sale at Gimbles department store in New York City
on 29 October 1945 for $9.75 each. This pen was widely known as the
Reynolds Rocket into the late 1950s.
remember seeing a “rocket” in a little variety store window in Northeast Phila. ON A “V” metal launching stand
That picture isn’t of a Reynolds Rocket. It looks like something by Fisher Pen Co. and is much newer than a Reynolds pen.