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I recently found these two pens [roller ball pen and ballpoint] being offered for sale. They look very similar to the Friedrich Schiller pens shown on the excellent fountain.de website.

 

I suspect that they are fake - clip looks too long, wrong cap colour, barrel band looks incorrect etc - but my knowledge is very limited on Mont Blanc pens. Can any more knowledgeble contributors to this forum help me out please?

 

Many thanks

 

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I own the Schiller and it looks nothing like that. I'm pretty shure Montblanc only made the one version of this pen, so my guess would be that what's pictured is a fake. The best way to tell would be to inspect the pen for the serial # and pix logo. Also, if you could get a photo of the nib, you would be able to tell if it had the crossbow design of the Schiller. All that being said, its not a bad looking pen.

 

I recently found these two pens [roller ball pen and ballpoint] being offered for sale. They look very similar to the Friedrich Schiller pens shown on the excellent fountain.de website.

 

I suspect that they are fake - clip looks too long, wrong cap colour, barrel band looks incorrect etc - but my knowledge is very limited on Mont Blanc pens. Can any more knowledgeble contributors to this forum help me out please?

 

Many thanks

 

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Also, if you could get a photo of the nib, you would be able to tell if it had the crossbow design of the Schiller.

 

Thanks for your help.

 

Unfortunately, only a roller ball and ballpoint for sale. I'm fast coming to the conclusion that they are fake. Seem to be too many differences to be a variant of the Schiller model. Also, according to the MB website, a roller ball was never produced.

 

Interesting pens though I suppose. Not fakes I've seen before.

 

 

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Fake! The clip design is so ugly to boot. They fixed the clips with screws to an upper cap band. Hideous!

Probably not worth the money for an "interesting" fake unless you collect fakes. :unsure:

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I've got a couple of these puppies, and in tune with all the others, these are fakes.

 

More interestingly though, had MB decided to make the Schiller in all black, it would have been a gorgeous pen - albeit a very similar format to the Agatha Christie. Oh well... :P

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