anyone had experience with these? some of the miyas and extras seem nice and what i like visually. i saw them in the FPH catalogue and they seem expensive. dont know how they compare. also saw some at pensinasia

sam

Really nice looking, never seen one in person much less hold one. I am told they are really nice writers, really expensive, they better be.

Bill

Had an beautiful blue Elmo. Dry writer. Constantly dried out. Sold it.

The appointments are all sterling silver. Have eyed the extra, but not yet decided to take the plungh.

I have a Montegrappa Micra in Orange Marble. They're handmade, celluloid, and as mentioned all appointments are indeed sterling. It is my best writer.

The nib is a two-tone 18K EF, writes wonderfully upside-down, and doesn't make a sound on the page. It's the smoothest nib I own.

The Miya, Symphony and Extra are all beautiful pens - but a good bit dearer than the Micra range. (Not that the Micra is cheap, $500 here in AU, expensive for a pen which only takes a cartridge.)

The Miya and Symphony have cartridge-converters. The Extra is the Piston-filler.

Of the four I've mentioned the Miya has the shorter thread turn. The others take like 2.5 turns to unscrew or post.

I'm not a huge Montegrappa fan. The pens are nice enough, but not worth the cash; sort of like an Italian Montblanc. I would rather go for a Stipula or a Visconti; certainly an Omas.

My thoughts, also.

The outstanding thing that queers the deal for me are the metal sections. I never met a metal section I liked, so that alone kills Montegrappa for this curmudgeon.

I’ve got a Montegrappa Extra. It’s a stunning pen, and the only one I own that non pen-people notice. However, the tines were misaligned when I bought it, and recently, it rolled off my desk and the celluloid cap cleanly snapped in two just above the sterling trim. Id does write very nice (after realigning the tines).

The Micra does get a lot of attention, but I do agree it's a bit of an Italian Montblanc. While lovely, I can think of several piston-filler pens I'd prefer to get instead of another Montegrappa.