I am in the aquire stage of this madness knowen as pen collecting and right now I seem to be attracting Mont Blancs. I have:
2 #149's
2 #146's
1 # 244
1 # 34
1 # 145? Ball Point
1 #252
1 Counterfit MB ball point that was $5 at the Portland Pen Show. Hey for $5 what else could I do?

What do you Have?
Mike

I was surprised to see that I have a total of 6

144 in Burgundy with gold Solitaire cap FP
164 BP also Burgundy
144 sterling Barleycorn FP
146 Burgundy FP
166 Burgundy highlighter
149 Meisterstuck FP

It would appear that I like Burgundy

One hopefully going on zero if I can sell my Legrand ballpoint without too much loss of value.

K

Zero.

NONE

Hi Mike,
149
256
254
252
744
642 N
Carrera Yellow
Carrera Steel
Monte Rosa (does this really count?)
14
and a little BP with the lever in the clip.
gary

Fountain pens - 146, Nickel Steel Noblesse from the 1970s (original Noblesse design - a $25 pen)

Ballpoints - three of the lever ballpoints, one with gold top; one Noblesse nickel steel slimline, original design; one of the classic style ballpoints from the 80s

Gone but not forgotten - a ballpix ballpoint; two steel Quickpens; brushed chrome Noblesse v.2 ballpoint


All good pens - I love the Noblesse steel FP the best. $25, nearly forty years later, writes as if new.

I don't use the 146 as much as I should - but it is a nice nib (circa 1977).

Currently none.

Later may have one

1-146 Black F

Mont Blanc Pens:

Meisterstück Hommage a' Frederic Chopin (145) – black med two tone gold nib

Meisterstück Classique 144 – Bordeaux fine gold nib

Meisterstück Classique 144 – Bordeaux BP

Meisterstück Classique 144 – Bordeaux RB

149
147
2 x 146
145

Ray

2x 149
2x 146 (will be selling one soon)
1x 146 75th anniversary
1x 164 Rollerball
1x Boheme Rollerball
1x 146 early 1960s
1x Von Karajan donation pen
1x Dostoevsky Writers Edition
1x 144 1950s
1x 642 1950s Silvexa cap
1x 252 1950s
1x 332 1950s
1x 342G 1950s (just been sold)

Nikolaos

Nada.

I have a 149, a 146 Pure Silver Solitaire and a 146 Ramses Solitaire. The 149 in F nib, the others in M nibs.

1 x MB Traveller FP
1 x Starwalker BP (100th Anni Ecition)
1 x Meisterstuck BP

Regards

1 x Montblanc Alexandre Dumas FP

One, a 149 (M).

I really like this pen, but not much else offered my Mont Blanc really appeals to me. My one probably will remain my only MB.
Scott

Just one, Meisterstueck Le Grand, EF, black resin and gold.
Absolutely no problems for the last three years or so.
The pen delivered what has been promised by MB's marketing team.

Why golden? I bought black resin and platinium Le Grand for my "better half" a few weeks before I bought mine.
That was the fastest way to diffrentiate those pens quickly (especially in a morning, befor coffee kicks in).

The next one - only after they change their prices on limited editions. Downward, I mean. Not quickly, I guess.

The cash has been transferred so now it is zero.

K

MB 144, black with F nib
steel Noblesse from the 80's (I think)
Kafka

The are all excellent writers. I probably won't buy another MB, only because I doubt I could afford customer services, should I ever need them. Which is really too bad.

Petra

Christie FP w Mottishawed medium oblique cursive italic
Poe B FP
Proust Binderized broad oblique italic FP and a M FP set
Fitzgerald OB FP and BP
Woolf OM FP set

So all in all 6 MB fountain pens, of which only the M Proust and B Poe wrote superbly out of the box (that's 33%!).
Of the 4 nib exchanges, the Christie OBB and the Proust OB wrote poorly hence the regrinds. The OB Fitzgerald and OM Woolf are impeccable. OBs are my favorite nibs, but no two OB nibs from MB nibs write the same. I suppose that the nibs on LEs are ground individually by different craftsmen.

Will I buy other MB FPs? Most probably yes. I am addicted to their nibs (when they write well) and I appreciate MBs design efforts. Ironically the pen design I like the most is not a FP, it is the Proust MP (pencil).

Which of the MB pens you own has the best design in your opinion?

149
146
144 (2)
114 (Mozart)

Jane

Hi,

I had 5 ages ago. I'm happy now that I have none though--just not my taste.

Dillon

2 mb 149 and 2 mb 146

Fountains pens:

One 149
Four 146s (different ages, nibs, trim)
One 146 sterling silver solitaire
Doestoevsky Writers series
Proust Writers series

Ballpoints:

One 164
One older model with lever in the clip.

1 MB 147 Fountain pen
1 Starwalker Fine liner pen
1 MB rollerball pen

Next purchase by end of this month : 1 Starwalker 100 yrs Diamond Fountain Pen

I currently have six MB fountain pens: 1 - 149, 2 - 146's, and 3 - old style Noblesse. The Noblesse are little bitty skinny things, but I love their old style nibs.

After the DC Pen Show I have the following:
146 Black FP
144 Black Roller Ball
144 Black Pencil
146 Silver Doue
146 Gold Malachite Nikolai - FP
Proust Writer's Edition - FP
Jules Verne Writer's Edition FP
Dostoevsky Writer's Edition - FP

One sweet little pen, the Mozart

I own 4 MB pens

2 149
1 146
1 writers edition Alexandre Dumas

My wife owns

1 144
1 146


TNS

Didnt realize just how many I had...

1- MB 149
1- MB 146
1- MB 145 (Chopin)
2 - Generations (1 red & 1 Maroon) - Technically 3, as I just purchased one very cheap to learn how to fix 'em.
1 - MB 342 flex nib
1 - MB 244
1 - Turbo
1 - Noblesse
2 - Monte Rossa's (if anyone needs one - drop me a line)
1 - SS RB 146
1 - Starwalker RB

Hi

Alas, only the one, a 146 that I bought many moons ago but which was the seed from which my collection has blossomed! Still got it, though.

Best

Des

I have 5, in order of purchase:

1 146 Solitaire Vermeil Pinstripe
1 Friedrich II LE
1 Proust LE
1 149 75th Anniversary
1 Gold-plate 1st generation Noblesse

All write flawlessly.

As it stands now:

1 x Boheme set (FP, BP, MP)
1 x Starwalker
2 x 149
1 x Solitare--stainless steel (won it in a raffle)
1 x 100 anniversary granite set (FP and BP)
1 x Jules Verne Writer's set (FP, BP, MP)
1 x Cervantes Writer's set (FP, BP, MP)
1 x Kafka Writer's set (FP, BP, MP)
1 x Woolf Writer's
1 x Proust Writer's
1 x Christie Writer's--sterling
1 x Christie Writer's--vermiel
1 x Poe Writer's
1 x Fitzgerald Writer's
1 x Schiller Writer's
1 x Dickens Writer's


Mrs. Kenny has:

1 x Garbo 100 yr (the all black one)
1 x Boheme Sterlling J'taime Set (FP, BP and a sterling MP that the MB boutique made into a matching "frakenpencil")
1 x Boheme Jewel RB

None for now and no future plans either.

I am proud owner of 3 #149s recent purchase at Toronto Pen show.
It has the following points. One Oblique, broad and medium. Use them every day since the purchased. I also have many other montblancs but can't remember their model numbers.

My Mont Blanc collection includes:

My late grandmother's 1960's model 34 with an OB nib and a model 32 cap

A sadly broken pre-WWII model 234 1/2 that may have belonged to my grandfather. It has a very flexible fine nib; the barrel is snapped into two pieces

The 149 with medium nib that I bought with paper route money around 1979, one of my very favorite fountain pens

A Noblesse set from the 70s, FP (med), ballpoint and pencil

A 4-color gravity-select Noblesse ballpoint (it has four little windows on the cap; turn the window with the desired color up, and then push down on the cap to extend the refill with that color); this is my favorite non-fountain pen

I have 6 MB's:
1 149
3 146's
1 144
1 MP
The 146 is one of my favorite FP's. I especially like the ones with the plastic fill mechanism because it is so much lighter than the metal fill mechanism.
Ken.

Good Day All,

I have just one, a 146 that I have had for 17 years. It was a gift from my wife, and it writes nicely, so is in my rotation.

Regards,

Wade

Ok...

Desk: Vintage Fountain pen, late 50's. Think its a 32, and its my knockabout desk pen at work.

Work: Brand new LeGrande platinum rollerball for meetings etc. (FP would be too delicate for all the moving about). I like the larger size for its more masculine feel.

Pocket: Classique gold ballpoint for my jacket pocket, and for its take anywhere, simple durability. And it wont leak on the travels. It's a pen I don't have to worry about. The smaller size is less ostentatious, and more practical, when using it in every day circumstances. Plus, you can get other refills!

...That covers my wokload perfectly.

Next step is either a 146 or a 149. Not sure which to get. It would be for best, and an upgrade to my desk FP! I'm only really interested in owning perhaps 2 more FP's: a Pelikan 800 series in black, and a 51. I can't stand the colourful and rather vulgar offerings about and have a real taste for simple black and metal.

Hi all,

1 x 149 FP
1 x 145 FP
1 x Jules Verns FP
1 x Voltaire set
1 x 233
1 x monte rosa
1 x rubber star walker FP

I have one 146, a gift received about 15 years ago. I am about to go get it repaired, because I left ink in it for an unforgivable amount of time, requiring professional cleaning.

It wrote very pleasingly before I wrought such neglect on it, so I hope it still writes the same afterwards (and that my wallet will not have suffered too greatly).

one, a white gold plated noblesse that writes great

1-146
1-Virginia Woolf

one 146, F nib that writes like an M

1x147 FP
1x164 BP
1x161 BP
1x163 RB
1xscenium BP
1xPoe BP
1xPoe FP

Zero MB pens.

However, they perfom flawlessly.

Tell us how many duponts you have -- in the dupont forum.

Only one, a black Classique RB.