Walnut Pen and Ink Desk Tray

Onoto

£195

This superb pen tray will add a touch of style to any desk. Hand-crafted in England from walnut, it has space for two pens and two bottles of ink. The walnut is a beautiful, rich colour thanks to four coats of oil which brings out the grain. The two indentations for ink bottles are lined with green felt and the underside of the tray is also lined with felt to prevent scratching. A gold-plated Onoto cipher sits discreetly between the two bottles. You can choose the style of button on the tray from the Onoto Cipher, University of Cambridge Crest, Shakespeare Portrait, Cat and Tiger Motifs.

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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.
Read from the register of people with significant control, following the chain of holding companies. It does not gate anything: a firm can be made here and owned elsewhere, and that is worth telling you rather than hiding.
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.