Mont Blanc logo

[Fleury]

I wonder when Mont Blanc introduces their logo. If Im not wrong the logo symbolizes the summit of Mont Blanc surrounded by 6 valleys? It was in time of Schicklgruber? In that case Schicklgruber was using Mont Blanc fountain pen with /without logo or never used Mont Blanc or all the guys from factory landed to nearest camp( Im pretty sure a concentration camp near Mont Blanc)to reflect how not to do logos that resemble Hebrew symbols?

Well I will appreciate any commentary........

Fleury

Edited May 19, 2010 by Fleury

[jar]

First, welcome home. and comments? Huh?

[Bo Bo Olson]

Osmia tried to use Mt. Everest I think it was, and was shot down by German court...by two cents.

[Fleury]

Thanks for welcoming me; but still the question is: Mont Blanc wait until 3-rd Reich end to history trash or they sought: What a heck let’s have some fun and paint this laborious logo on our beloved fountain pen to give to H. H. H. and other some problems? I'm shure where more than 3 H but I mean only 3 of them.

Edited May 19, 2010 by Fleury

[jar]

Huh?

[Fleury]

You speak about Osmia ribifloris or anosmia?

[eric47]

Thanks for welcoming me; but still the question is: Mont Blanc wait until 3-rd Reich end to history trash or they sought: What a heck let’s have some fun and paint this laborious logo on our beloved fountain pen to give to H. H. H. and other some problems?

 

I did a Google search, most sites say the logo was created in 1913. That's about 20 years before the Nazi came into power.

[Fleury]

Let me explain something: My English can be funny but I try hard not to be...Anyway the answer is labored by the fact that I'm not English mother tongue.........

[Fleury]

I'm the only one that see a Hebrew symbol or the history is repeating like in Bulgakov’s Master and Margarita book when the Devil appear in 1927 in Moscow and actually the big mustache man sought that is about somebody else and not about him?

[eric47]

I'm the only one that see a Hebrew symbol or the history is repeating like in Bulgakov's Master and Margarita book when the Devil appear in 1927 in Moscow and actually the big mustache man sought that is about somebody else and not about him?

 

I guess not, MB makes some pens with a triangle for some Middle East markets, see here.

 

I don't really see it, and even then, I don't know that it matters. I suppose the McDonald's golden arches look like a behind if I stand on my head.

Edited May 20, 2010 by eric47

[Fleury]

Actually I have a theory. The small mustache received from staff only a Mont Blanc without (how to say?) top of fountain pen?

[FrankB]

I think the Mont Blanc company was founded in 1906. I forget what the company's original name was. The snow cap logo was introduced in 1913 as a symbol of the mountain's snow cap. I think the logo is also called an Edelweiss. However, you are not the only one who sees a Hebrew six-pointed star. If I remember correctly, some (many?) MB writing instruments sold in the Middle East replaced the snow cap with a white triangle. Sad.

 

To my knowledge, the snow cap symbol was used consistently throughout World War II. It apparently did resemble Edelweiss to many people. Edelweiss, both the actual flower and symbols of it, were worn by German Bergtruppen and Fallschirmjaeger, both SS and Luftwaffe, and a number of other assorted German units. I would imagine, though I do not know as a fact, that the snow cap symbol would have been very popular among those soldiers and their family members. Whatever the case, the symbol was somewhat controversial in that political environment, but never actually banned to my knowledge.

Edited May 20, 2010 by FrankB

[mroghmans]

I thought I had a handle on the big mustache man but you lost me with the small mustache.What you really need to do Fleury is find a friend that speaks your language and also speaks fluent English and tell him what you'd like to say and have him write it for you. Trust me on this.

 

Mark

[eric47]

I thought I had a handle on the big mustache man but you lost me with the small mustache.What you really need to do Fleury is find a friend that speaks your language and also speaks fluent English and tell him what you'd like to say and have him write it for you. Trust me on this.

 

Mark

 

 

I think but am not sure:

big mustache = Stalin

small mustache = Schicklgruber = Hitler

 

I'm not sure what "H. H. H." is. Maybe Hitler, Himmler, and ???

 

Not sure where this thread is going.

[mroghmans]

I think the Mont Blanc company was founded in 1906. I forget what the company's original name was. The snow cap logo was introduced in 1913 as a symbol of the mountain's snow cap. I think the logo is also called an Edelweiss. However, you are not the only one who sees a Hebrew six-pointed star. If I remember correctly, some (many?) MB writing instruments sold in the Middle East replaced the snow cap with a white triangle. Sad.

 

To my knowledge, the snow cap symbol was used consistently throughout World War II. It apparently did resemble Edelweiss to many people. Edelweiss, both the actual flower and symbols of it, were worn by German Bergtruppen and Fallschirmjaeger, both SS and Luftwaffe, and a number of other assorted German units. I would imagine, though I do not know as a fact, that the snow cap symbol would have been very popular among those soldiers and their family members. Whatever the case, the symbol was somewhat controversial in the environment, but never actually banned to my knowledge.

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A number of World War One German fighter pilots also chose to paint the Edelweiss on the sides of their, most notably, Albatros fighters.

 

Mark

[jar]

I think the Mont Blanc company was founded in 1906. I forget what the company's original name was.

 

 

Simplo-Filler.

[mroghmans]

I thought I had a handle on the big mustache man but you lost me with the small mustache.What you really need to do Fleury is find a friend that speaks your language and also speaks fluent English and tell him what you'd like to say and have him write it for you. Trust me on this.

 

Mark

 

 

I think but am not sure:

big mustache = Stalin

small mustache = Schicklgruber = Hitler

 

I'm not sure what "H. H. H." is. Maybe Hitler, Himmler, and ???

 

Not sure where this thread is going.

 

Of course, I'm slapping myself in the head. 3rd H. maybe Hess.

 

Mark

[FrankB]

Mark wrote:

 

"A number of World War One German fighter pilots also chose to paint the Edelweiss on the sides of their, most notably, Albatros fighters."

 

Yes, indeed. I focused on WWII because that seems to be the OP's interest in regard to the MB logo.

[Fleury]

Well what the mater! This guys where eating Jews at a rate of thousands per day and where ready with horror story for their children about Jews, but you know they looked at this symbol and maybe they said : Sure this is White Mountain, Im sure it is; I can imagine the mountain, cannot be something else…..

I think Mont Blanc Company had guts and they gamble with lack of imagination of 3rd Reich and Im glad that at least was one company that makes fun of that 3rd Reich

So I have a Mont Blanc no. 146 and all the time when I look at this logo I say to myself: Bravos Monte Blanco you succeed to make fun of this regime......

Edited May 20, 2010 by Fleury

[eric47]

I thought I had a handle on the big mustache man but you lost me with the small mustache.What you really need to do Fleury is find a friend that speaks your language and also speaks fluent English and tell him what you'd like to say and have him write it for you. Trust me on this.

 

Mark

 

 

I think but am not sure:

big mustache = Stalin

small mustache = Schicklgruber = Hitler

 

I'm not sure what "H. H. H." is. Maybe Hitler, Himmler, and ???

 

Not sure where this thread is going.

 

Of course, I'm slapping myself in the head. 3rd H. maybe Hess.

 

Mark

 

My turn Hess works.