The Flanders Pen

Onoto

£600

In Joint Venture with TMB Art Metal, we introduce you to The Flanders Pen. Crafted from copper retrieved from British artillery shell drive bands discovered in the fields of the Somme region of France, and Ypres in Belgium. The poppy incised cap button gets its colour from red enamel mixed with earth gathered from Essex Farm, Ypres. The same location that Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae of the Canadian Army Medical Corps penned his world-famous poem, ‘In Flanders Fields’, on 3rd May 1915. This beautifully crafted pen uniquely incorporates two elements of World War One history – metal and earth.

Onoto's own words, read from their page.

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Where this comes from

The part other shops don't tell you. Three separate questions, kept separate on purpose, each with its source.

UK company
Registered at Companies House as THE ONOTO PEN COMPANY LIMITED, number 03744683. Checked 2026-08-29.
Means the business is a British legal entity, not a British-sounding name owned elsewhere. It says nothing about where anything is made.
UK operations
Not yet checked.
Means people employed here, or premises they actually work from. We keep this separate from the company badge because a registered office can be an accountant's spare room, and a company can be registered in Britain while everything it does happens somewhere else. Where we have not looked, we say so rather than assuming.
British-owned
No majority shareholding traced outside the UK. Companies House.
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Where it is made
The maker doesn't say, so neither do we.
This is about the individual product, not the company. A British firm can sell things made abroad, which is normal and not a criticism. We would rather tell you which is which than average them into a score.