Mont Blancs in Bonhams Auction February 17

January 27, 2009

On February 17, 2009, in Los Angeles, Bonhams will auction more than $1,000,000 in mostly new in the box Limited Edition Fountain Pens. Among the many highlights of the auction will be a number of significant Mont Blanc pens, including:

the first Magical Black Widow, the White House and 4th of July editions, five skeleton pens, the rare Salvador Dali only issued in Spain, the atelier Beethoven (one of 9) and Sapphire Year of the Golden Dragon (7/8), as well as the Medici, Copernicus, and Semiramis among many many others. Here is a list:

163 Mont Blanc “4th of July” FP 32/56

164 Mont Blanc “White House” FP 32/43

165 Mont Blanc “Skeleton” FP 101/333

166 Mont Blanc “Stars & Stripes” skeleton FP 17/50

167 Mont Blanc “I Love New York” skeleton 30/50

168 Mont Blanc “Mexican Flag” skeleton one/15

169 Mont Blanc “Salvador Dali” FP 88/100

170 Mont Blanc “Black Widow” skeleton FP 1/88

171 Mont Blanc “Catherine II the Great” FP 293/888

172 Mont Blanc “Peter I the Great” FP 293/888

173 Mont Blanc “Meissen Dragon” FP 830/888

174 Mont Blanc “Year of Golden Dragon” FP 7/8

175 Mont Blanc “Copernicus” FP 384/888

176 Mont Blanc “Mozart” malachite pen and chain

177 Mont Blanc “Prince Regent” FP 122/888

178 Mont Blanc Atelier “Beethoven” FP one/9

179 Mont Blanc “Agatha Christie” set 2574/30000

180 Mont Blanc “Agatha Christie” FP 824/4810

181 Mont Blanc “Alexander the Great” FP 57/888

182 Mont Blanc “Alexander Dumas” writing set

183 Mont Blanc “Hemingway” ballpoint pen

184 Mont Blanc “Hemingway” ballpoint pen

185 Mont Blanc “Hemingway” fountain pen

186 Mont Blanc “Herbert von Karajan” 3-FP set

187 Mont Blanc “Jules Verne” 3-FP set

188 Mont Blanc “Lorenzo de Medici” FP 4809/4810

189 Mont Blanc “Octavian” FP 1687/4810

190 Mont Blanc “Qing Dynasty” FP 1597/2002

191 Mont Blanc “Sakura” FP 118/333

192 Mont Blanc “Semiramis” FP 875/888

193 Mont Blanc “Voltaire” 3-FP set

There are many other Limited Edition pens from Aurora, Dani Trio, Delta, Dupont, Krone, Omas, Parker, Visconti to even begin to list, more than three hundred lots comprising a total of more than 400 pens.

Here is a link to the on-line version of the catalog:

http://www.bonhams.com/cgi-bin/public.sh/p...p;iSaleNo=17340

PW_Pens_1_20093.pdf