I am talking only about the design.

I really like the Edgar Allan Poe. But also the Dostoevsky and the Voltaire.

Actually I quite like the look of the Greta Garbo special edition (that is if you keep the pen capped ... the streamline for some reason just doesn't carry to the section and the nib), but for the moment, Kafka.

I like the Bernstein. The musical clef, the Dove-of-Peace nib, and the classic styling do it for me.

http://www.pensinasia.com/le_black_widow_8...-_montblanc.htm

As MBs go - I like the Garbo, too.

Today I looked in on a jewelry store in the Med center and studied their MB display briefly (no prices displayed of course.)

I had never seen those tiny little MBs - ooooooohh.. . totally out of my budget range but what a darling little pen. I'm not sure I like the Pel 300 as much (also out of my budget.)

p.s. - what is the smallest Meisterstuck (sp?) called? Which # designation that is.

i think there is a similarly small Boheme? the full size looks ugly to me but the little one... very cool.

WOW!!! That Black Widow is really amazing! I especially like the nib -- I love it that MB does wacky dramatic things with nibs, like the cockroach on the Kafka. But tell the truth -- if you had this pen, could you actually bring yourself to write with it? It's definitely one way to make a statement! :ph34r:

Petra

I voted on the one I bought -- Herbert Von Karajan.

Nice facetted cap band and flat top caught my eye.
Nice smooth writer, too.

excellent choice. I am planning to get the same one soon.

BTW: The clip looks similar to that of a Pelikan pen.

The clip features a baton. Nice touch.

It's the Mozart. I want one! In Bordeaux. I'm kicking myself because someone was selling them at a great price in DC. I let a little thing like Rick and myself being unemployed at the time get in the way.

okay - that's what I thought.

yeah - being broke is such a pain sometimes.

i have no use for such a tiny pen - but it really was lovely to look at.

Wow. That makes the pen look even better now! I am going to buy this gem as soon as I get the $$$$$!

Elaine,
If you are interested in being first in line if I ever sell the Burgundy Mozart set, send me a PM.
I do not foresee parting with them soon, but Elaine McIntyre waited for a year before taking in the 51 Mottishaw stub.

Also, the Mozart FP was the FP that got me back into the FP accumulation trails a while ago.

At the mean time, enjoy (Left to right : Mozart one-pen sleeve, Rossi 149, 147 Traveller, Mozart FP in MED & BP set)

I voted for the Cervantes, but that sure is a great looking pen Kckc!

I love the Karajan, and did see one at a great price at the Ohio Pen Show last year at Bill Weakley's table. It was a gorgeous, but, alas, the little thing called "lack of money in the good ol'bank account" stopped me.

I don't think that any MB designs could be considered cool. Then again I don't think alot of all fountain pens could be considered cool.

K

I'm not normally an MB person (although I might pick up a vintage MB one day) but the Kafka is both distinctive and tasteful.

Sorry buddy but I think all these MB pens doesnt get close to the timeless classic of the MB 149.Its a clean, beautiful and will always be a true classic.
So I didnt vote for any of the pens you listed.

But like spats which can be considered timeless they might not be considered cool

I bought the Von karajan about 2 weeks ago, and i love it! I spent 230 euros for it, since a department store in the Hague had it for 50% off.....Great price i think. The pen looks great and writes super smoothly! Very happy with it

I like the Kafka, a great looking pen ..... but yeah the cockroach on the nib is a little unsettling

Dawn

Yes a castle or maze might have been just as appropriate and not given the shudder factor as well.

K

Him just such a kafka fan! I read most of his writings. The trial and the castle being the coolest. But metamorsphosis was cool. So i voted kafka, both because the pen is nice and the signification (I study in law). When I graduate, i'm buying a kafka with my first pay check!

hehehe

I wonder why these particular choices were listed?

Although it may not be a "quirky" as some of the other pens you mentioned, I'm really drawn to the Jules Verne. You can't appreciate it in person, but the wavy blue finish on the pen (supposed to evoke the ocean) has almost a 3-D quality about it.

It was my second MB, and the one that really got me charged about collecting different FPs.

I think the Kafka is a real stunner. I'm not crazy about the signature, but I love everything else about it. And I don't think anything else would work on the nib except the cockroach (esp. as the theme of the pen is metamorphosis).

The Oscar Wilde is pretty also. I don't like what they do with the clips on many of the LE series. I like the Greta Garbo except for the pearl, I like the Dostoevsky except for the little cabochon in the clip.

I would like someone to give me the Voltaire because I am very fond of Voltaire, but the pics I'm finding make it look a rather ordinary thing.

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I love the Octavian.

Don't know why you left so many others out, but the Proust is my favorite.

I mean, just look at it!! Is that gorgeous and cool or what.




Kev

To me, the Cervantes is the best pen that Montblanc has designed in a long, long time. The only way it could have been improved would have been to use the big 149 nib instead of the smaller 146 nib.... but I realize that the "Writers Series" is based on the 146.

I've got the Agatha Christie in the FP and Ballpoint and love them both. The Ballpoint's been my daily writer for the last 4 years.

KPB

I like the Marcel Proust a lot (and a few others too), I just wish MB didn't stick the author's signature on the pen. Interrupts the lines and all.

The Agatha Christie is by far the one that I like most from the above. There are some other models as well, that make have sweet dreams, like: Lorenzo de Medici and Marcel Proust, Nicolaus Copernicus and of course the hommage a John Harrison and the referendum to the Qing Dynasty...

I too love the Prost, surprisingly the signature doesn't bother me. Having said this, the nib does nothing for me.

Greta Garbo.

The Cervantes has the coolest design - by a long shot. It's the only apart from the Jules Verne that isn't black or a very dark colour. For MB standards, the Cervantes is really quite flashy.

You have obviously never seen a Visconti!

You could also consider the Wilde and the Dumas to be so (in terms of colurfulness, that is).

Edit: Clarity

Ballpoint as a daily writer?! For shame! You must bathe away your sins in a bath of Waterman Florida Blue. Once you go down the path of the dark side, forever will it control you.

Another one that was missed was the MB Hemmingway. To me, this is a must have pen since I cannot find a Vintage MB139 at an affordable price!!!



and the wonderful Alexander Dumas



TNS

Both gorgeous pens, although I find the Hemmingway less striking than the Dumas.

Not listed in that poll, the f scott fitzgerald http://www.montblanc.com/48.php

Hello,

I just bought a Garbo. The shape of the pen is very sexy. I could do without the pearl but it's there, deal with it. The Bach pen is another favorite. The body of the pen changes color. In dim light it looks black but in bright light it's really a deep brown. The G-clef is also very well done. I wish the pen would start without forcing the pen to make a dot somewhere. The nib, a medium, seems to be very tight and closed at the nib tip. I'm afraid to have anyone look at it. I'm tempted to send it to the Nib Doctor in California but the mail scares me. In keeping with a theme, the Fitzgerald is super and the Kafka is also nice.

It seems to me, a newbie to all this(3 years), that these fountain pens are something new. They have been making pens for hundreds of years and making nice ones too, but only recently, last 15 years that the mass-production of very fine, "jeweleristic" pens has exploded. Is it a mastering of the manufacturing process or does it say something about the market and the people willing to pay $500 for an object that we lust after?

Super picture winedoc.

I have put on my asbestos suit so you may flame away...

Dave

I voted for the Edgar Allen Poe edition, mainly for the classic marbling style, like the Oscar Wilde and Alexander Dumas editions which I like as well. Is it just me, or does anyone else really like the Charles Dickens edition? That sterling silver cap is a real showpiece.

Though I like the F. Scott Fitzgerald very much, and it's the first on my wishlist.

It's a real shame that the C Dickens is not that lovely green in the picture

I have a set of three and although awesome, the green would have been so much better, Tccch!! Now, where's that green aerosol...