Can Anyone Date This Meisterstück149 For Me?

[Chris26]

Hello, I have seen that the price of the MB 149 can vary dramatically depending of the decade that was made. This one the seller claim that is from 50´s 60´s, in fact the seller told me that was a present that his father got on 1964 for his bachelor graduation. I have been doing some research comparing the pictures of the pen on the net and it looks to me that the pen is more late 60 or 70. Please can any one tell from what decade is the pen an why? Thank you in advance for your answers.

 

[Inkling13]

Its hard to say without seeing the piston rod, but if you look here, you can see what they changed when for the 149. It looks modern, with a plastic feed. It would seem to be 1980's earliest. It would help to see the piston rod mechanism, visable when you are filling the pen.

http://blog.livedoor.jp/whitestar_ftl/%E9%83%A8%E4%BD%8D%E6%8E%A8%E7%A7%BB%E5%B9%B4%E8%A1%A8201708.08_001.jpg

Edited February 22, 2018 by Inkling13

[Inkling13]

http://blog.livedoor.jp/whitestar_ftl/%E9%83%A8%E4%BD%8D%E6%8E%A8%E7%A7%BB%E5%B9%B4%E8%A1%A8201708.08_001.jpg

[Chris26]

Its hard to say without seeing the piston rod, but if you look here, you can see what they changed when for the 149. It looks modern, with a plastic feed. It would seem to be 1980's earliest. It would help to see the piston rod mechanism, visable when you are filling the pen.

http://blog.livedoor.jp/whitestar_ftl/%E9%83%A8%E4%BD%8D%E6%8E%A8%E7%A7%BB%E5%B9%B4%E8%A1%A8201708.08_001.jpg

By piston rod you meant when you unscrew the last part of the barrel when you go to ink the pen?

[zaddick]

It looks like a late early 1990s pen. There is nothing about that pen that looks 1960s or 1970s, forget 1950s.

 

The pen has a two piece barrel with the thicker collar and the feed is plastic. Does the clip ring have a serial number? It if has a serial number it is after about 1991. If not, the clip is pre 1991.

 

Even a 1980s pen after 1985 should still have an ebonite feed so it looks like an early 1990s pens when they transitioned from 14K to 18K nibs.

Edited February 22, 2018 by zaddick

[Inkling13]

By piston rod you meant when you unscrew the last part of the barrel when you go to ink the pen?

No, just the visable part of the piston mechanism when your piston is actuated to the extended position, visable in the gap between the piston nob and bodybof the pen.