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The quill pen was replaced by the metal nibs by 19th century. Throughout the early 19th century, the usage of the quill pen faded and the quality of metal nibs increased. Ball point pens also made their mark in the pen history in the late 19th century, but were their patents were not exploited commercially. Ball points made their public appearance in the 1940s by Josef and Georg Biro, two Germans who fled Nazi Germany to Argentina. The Biro brothers filed a new patent in 1943, and their [patent] was accepted and sold in Argentina as ''Birome''.
After WWII, many companies wanted to commercial their own ballpoint pen. This mission was attempted in the 1940s, when the Eberhard Faber pencil factory teamed up with Eversharp Co. to license the rights [for pens] from Birome for sales in the US. But American entrepreneur Milton Reynolds beat Eberhard Faber and Eversharp Co. in introducing the ballpoint pen to the US. Reynolds achieved this by taking a business trip to Argentina and bringing back [to the US] a couple of Birome ballpoint pens. From the pens he took, he created the ''Reynolds International Pen Company''.
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