Montblanc 147 TravellerĪs I got back to my car, I immediately turned to Google. I took the gamble, shove a fistful of twenty-dollar bills into his hand and left without knowing what I had purchased. The almost new leather case and the very clean finish on the pen supported with his comment. The seller told me he had bought it a decade before but never really used it, and the pen had been sitting in a drawer for some time. I was very conflicted but determined not to waste the seller’s time. Did you know that Montblanc resin shines with red colour when white light is shone through it? It is one of the easiest ways to spot a fake as regular black plastic doesn’t have this feature. I took my phone out and shined the light into the cap. I became very nervous - was this the most expensive and elaborate fake I have ever seen, or some weird pen that I had never heard of before. The other is to create a piston filling fountain pen and often genuine-looking pens that should be piston filled are manufactured with cartridge/converters. While it is common to find a forged pen looking like a Montblanc, there are a few things that are much harder for the makers of the fakes to do.
And even more alarm bells went off when the owner showed me that the back of the pen unscrewed as it took ink cartridges! The nib wrote as beautifully as one would expect from Montblanc. The pen looked like a Montblanc 146, as I suspected. Even so, I was not expecting the pen that I found when I got there. I would be either getting a good deal on a pen or paying a high price for a fake. I drove to the seller's house to pick up the pen - excited and nervous at the same time. Finding an unknown Montblanc - real or fake? Luckily, I had emailed at the right time as the owner got back to me, and I arranged to pick the pen up. It was a gamble, but it was a deal that I couldn’t pass up if it worked out well. Despite the uncertainty, I quickly sent an email asking to purchase it. I expected to find a messy pen filled with dried black ink, especially as the owner didn’t know much about the pen. I couldn’t see the ink window, but it was hard to make out in the poor pictures. Still, the barrel thickness compared to its length, lack of trim ring around the section, and size of the nib suggested this may be a 146 at a very affordable price. It was hard to tell what the pen was from the pictures. It was advertised with a Montblanc leather pen wallet included at a very reasonable price. The seller didn’t know much about the pen as the ad had a minimal description and had poor quality cell phone pictures. The vague Montblanc fountain pen advertisementĪ few months ago, I found a pen advertised on Craigslist. These often unloved pens translate to some good financial deals, if you know what you are looking for, are patient, and don’t mind doing a little work on your pens. I have also seen neglected pens with dried ink and scratches from being thrown in the back of a desk drawer after the novelty of writing with a fountain pen has worn off. Still, I have also seen many fakes and forgeries that are common with such a prestigious and valuable brand. I’ve purchased some great pens in the past. But gifts and brand-name purchases mean that often the people selling the pens do not know much about them. Indeed it was a Montblanc pen that got me back into the fountain pen hobby after some time away. As a premium brand, Montblanc pens are often gifted to people based on the brand name or obtained because of the prestige rather than the writing quality.
Montblanc pens are often interesting and challenging to purchase used.
0 kommentar(er)
