A Bugatti In A Box?

[Darcy1978]

I found a whole bunch of bugatti pens, each in their own box and with a bottle of 'Forty-eight' ink. Does anyway know anything about this particular pen and ink? Worth the trouble?

[Darcy1978]

The ink - on closer inspection - looks like Pelikan Royal Blue. Hm.

[dneal]

The bottle is also similar to the old Graf von Faber Castell bottles.

 

http://www.mojolondon.co.uk/a/i/products/250/82152alt.jpg

[RMN]

That bottle is almost universal, and was used by, amongst others, at one time or another:

 

Pelikan, Cross, Conway Stewart, Diplomat, Old GvFC (as seen above). Probably all Pelikan made.....

 

 

 

The pen has a mid 20th century German look.

 

There were other Bugatti Pens. see https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/index.php/topic/183603-eb-bugatti-collection/

 

And Penemporium has a Bugatti 50 pen listed for just under $500.

 

 

D.ick

[Darcy1978]

Those other Bugattis look a lot fancier though. It looks like a piston filler, which probably doesn't make it very modern.

[Darcy1978]

Never mind - they've been sold...

[lynxcat]

it may not look modern, but it pretty much has to be. if it's a Bugatti promotional item, it'll have to either date to the original Bugatti corporation which died with its founder in 1947 (and which may not have ever licensed any pens), or else to one of the brand revival attempts, the first of which was in the late 1980's.

[Bo Bo Olson]

Buy a pen get a Bugatti 1000 ps/1100hp car free.

[Seele]

Even when Bugatti cars were dormant (and owned by Hispano-Suiza), the firm was still officially extant and made some money by licensing the Bugatti brand name to quite a number of firms, for branding a variety of products, such as spectacle frames, watches, etc; it was indeed the case some time in the mid-1980s before the brick was first moved from Mosheim to Italy, and that's way before the brand returned to Germany.