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Hi!

 

I hope that somebody in here knows what pen Inspector Montalbano uses in the TV series. I guess it´s an italian pen...

 

The TV series is my favourite, and it would be nice to know pen he uses, and possibly own one.

 

Cheers,

 

Michael

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Ha! That is a mystery to be solved. Can't wait to see what the answer will be. :^)

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I enjoy watching Montalbano too....

 

But didn't notice his pen....

 

Will watch for it next time I see it.....

FP Addict & Pretty Nice Guy

 

 

 

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The pen does appear from time to time , but not in every episode.

I have always hoped it would be an old Aurora 88.

 

I'm looking out for one myself with the silver coloured cap.

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I've never seen the show, but have read several of the books and can't recall a fountain pen being mentioned. Looking forward to the answer myself.

Fool me once, shame on you.

Fool me twice; damn

There goes that fox again.

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Great series. Bring back Montalbano, BBC4!

 

Thing is, I don't think I've ever seen him use an fp. Plenty of pencils, sometimes a ballpoint in his office and apartment. I think Montalbano is a bit of a sensualist, his days are filled with excellent food and exotic women B)

 

If material things were more his cup of tea, I think he'd have replaced that missing hub cap on his clapped-out wee Tipo a long time ago!

 

http://i773.photobucket.com/albums/yy19/flounder2009/Montalbano/th_3.jpg http://i773.photobucket.com/albums/yy19/flounder2009/Montalbano/th_2.jpg http://i773.photobucket.com/albums/yy19/flounder2009/Montalbano/th_Tipo.jpg

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I´m sure I´ve seen a black fountain pen in some of the first episodes. I will keep my eyes open when continuing watching through them all.

 

However, a Swedish collector friend, Pär Strand, found this information: http://www.donnamoderna.com/tempo-libero/asta-vasco-rossi-teomondo-scrofalo/foto-4

 

Cheers,

 

Michael

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Montalbano uses a fountain pen?! I can't believe I never spotted this before! I'll have to dig out my box set soon and try to spot it.

 

I would imagine though that Montalbano wouldn't be able to go past the Visconti HS. A pen made from the lava of Mt Etna? Surely that pen would be a no brainer for any true Sicilian...

It's quite nice out here in the sunshine...

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I´m sure you will enjoy it! I´m sure I´ve seen the fountain pen in one or two episodes from the first season.

 

Cheers,

 

Michael

 

 

talk about an impulse buy. I just purchased season one from reading the posts. Thanks for the idea.

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If the pen of Montalbano is like his car... :lol:

However, I never noticed it.

 

P.S. I didn't imagine it was so famous abroad. I'm curious to know how the characters speak, in English: because in Italian, sometimes it's difficult to catch the meaning, due to the Sicilian dialect.

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On BBC4, it was never dubbed, always subtitled. In the parts where I imagine it must have been tricky, like poor harrassed Caterella's mixed up utterances, the joke still made sense in English.

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Here in the SF Bay Area the show, from MHz networks, is shown on one of our PBS stations. It is in Italian with English subtitles.

 

Caterella is such a keystone cop that it's amazing that they made him their computer expert.

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Think the writers were very clever about purposely showing sides to Catarella that you would not have expected...ie, they set up the viewers for this...

 

As for subtitles, I find the translations pretty good overall...

 

Great show...

FP Addict & Pretty Nice Guy

 

 

 

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Oh, I do think that the writers are making him more interesting than just a keystone cop. Just to me, all the jokes about how he comes into a room, or is always getting names to very very wrong is funny in not a good way though.

 

I should also note that they air the episodes in a strange order... last week Mimi was just getting married and this week Bebe is pregnant.

 

Now, what was the pen?

Heck, he's still wearing his father's watch, so what's the watch?

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By a lucky chance, yesterday they re-run "La gita a Tindari", and guess what I found?

 

 

Could be a NoNonsense or any kind of Sheaffer Flat top clone.

 

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