What Was Your First Montblanc?

[Wolverine]

What was your first Montblanc pen? Do you still have it?

[penparadise]

My first Montblanc pen was a ballpoint pen for DM 4,95 (US$ 2.50) retail price. It was in 1968 and a customer took it with him a few weeks later ...

[thygreyt]

Mb 149. Its currently inked with wild strawberry

[888007888]

MB 147 LeGrand Traveller from an estate sale for $100 US. Sold it as I couldn't figure out how to use it, only to re-purchase the same model years later as I discovered what a fountain pen was and fell in love with the FP community

[Tom Kellie]

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/312503-my-original-montblanc-149-background-and-age-estimation/

[Barkingpig]

Mentioned in the earlier post, a friend who gave me her late Husband's 146, with it's medium nib. I didn't love the medium nib & bought another one & had the nib switched to an OBB. I had not wanted to alter the first pen & use it occasionally but prefer the broader nib on my second 146.

[timo]

Montblanc 32 with an OB nib. That was around 10 years ago - and got me into Montblanc's. Loved that pen, had such a nice smooth nib. Shouldn't have sold it....

[FOUR X FOUR]

my first MB came from the boutique In Orlando. My first 149 came from a very nice member that lives in Texas. The 149 is an awesome pen.

[Sandy1]

Hi,

 

A 149 + B nib.

 

It is so excellent that I saw no reason to buy another MB pen. Just as I have only one Parker Vacumatic - got it in one.

 

Let us write with pleasure.

 

Bye,

S1

Edited April 27, 2017 by Sandy1

[jar]

IIRC my first MB was a 149 bought in the early 70s. And nope, sold or gave away all my 149s.

[jmccarty3]

My first MB was a 149 with a fine wet nib, bought new 50 years ago. It is sitting right here on my desk, inked with MB Permanent Blue.

[Penman222]

I purchased a used 1991 MB 146 last summer from a FPN seller and have been using it regularly since then. Here is a photograph of it with a couple of his German friends. (please excuse the phone screenshot)

[torstar]

146 from a store, a good friend advised that there is no such thing as a superbargain on a new or good condition MB.

[Tweel]

The first Montblanc in the house was my wife's, one of the annual editions, based on the 144 but with a porcelain cap. It cost far too much, of course, but aside from that was a very nice c/c pen and interested me in getting a 144 sometime. My first Montblanc was, and is, a Starwalker.

 

It is so excellent that I saw no reason to buy another MB pen... got it in one.

 

That's exactly how I feel, not about a brand, but a model: my Waterman Carène.

Edited April 27, 2017 by Tweel

[Asterias]

My first Montblanc was a 144 in 1989 when I was a student. I still have it.

[BillH]

I avoided held off on Montblanc for quite a time, finally purchasing an early '90's 146 with a slightly skinny medium nib. Found out the scoffers were full of beans. I loved it and promptly bought a 149. Love that one too. Then a... Anyway, yes, I still have all of them, and the most recent was a WE Dumas.

[Wolverine1]

It was a MB 149, which I sold to my friend from Pentrace.

I regret having sold it, and so I have made up for it, now I own 9 MB 149 pens!!!!!

[Cyrille81]

My first one was a Meisterstuck Unicef ballpoint I lost when someone stole my bag in the train few years ago.

[mirosc]

Some giveaway fountain pen that came as gift with a newspaper subscription. Just one of those cheap school fountain pens Montblanc produced back in the 70s and 80s. It went into the trash bin eventually, I guess it was a Turbo or Carrera or something like that.

[Cordovian]

I still have a Slimline I bought in 1989. I'm not sure if it was my first Montblanc or not since I don't remember what all I used in High School. That was a loooonnnnggg time ago.