Identify An Antique Montblanc

[daffie]

Hello MB-lovers!

 

Here is my MB pencil. I don't know anything about it.

Wat is the age, is it a rarity, has it a little bit value, etcetera?

 

It has the MB star on top, a lovely big one. The gold plated clip says 'Mont Blanc'.

On the barrel, which is in eight corners (i don't know how to call that in english, sorry!), it says 'Stoffhaas' and 'Mont Blanc' and 'D.R.P. 481237' and nearby the clip the numbering '10'.

Overall length is 13,5 cm.

 

I will appreciate your thoughts and comments!

[sumgaikid]

What you have is a pencil from the late 1920's-early 1930's.

I've heard of the name Stoffhaas,but I don't remember the

association w/Montblanc.

 

 

John

Edited August 15, 2013 by sumgaikid

[JLS1]

I believe (and am quite willing to be proved wrong) that Stoffhaus was a German stationary store/chain. Montblanc, Soennecken, Pelikan and others would produce pens, pencils and other items just for this store or chain. It's kind of like when you buy a car from a dealer: you might buy a Honda, but somewhere on the car, there's a sticker, plate or other identifier as to the dealer you bought the car from.

[sumgaikid]

I believe (and am quite willing to be proved wrong) that Stoffhaus was a German stationary store/chain. Montblanc, Soennecken, Pelikan and others would produce pens, pencils and other items just for this store or chain. It's kind of like when you buy a car from a dealer: you might buy a Honda, but somewhere on the car, there's a sticker, plate or other identifier as to the dealer you bought the car from.

 

I think that you might be right--I vaguely remember reading somewhere

that Stoffhaas was a German store.

 

Just googled the name and came up with info that said(by one of the

members here) that the author of the MB book lists the name as a sub-

brand of MB. Another member indicated that the Stoffhaas name re-

ferred to a stationery store chain.

 

BTW,you could also look up the DRP(Deutsche Reichs Patent) number

and get an idea when it was made.

 

 

John

Edited August 15, 2013 by sumgaikid

[idazle]

I think octogonal pencils without clip accompanied the Montblac safety octogonal pens of the 1920s. However yours carry a teardrop clip, which was produced later, between 1930-34.

 

I've seen one without clip in the penboard.de database:

 

http://www.penboard.de/shop/searchdb?srchvaluedb=montblanc+octogonal+pencil&db_seller=0

 

Stöffhaas carried Montblanc products (pen, leather goods, writing paper) under exclusive rights. The first of these MB-Stöffhaas shops was open in Hamburg in 1919. In a way they could be considered the ancestors of the modern Montblanc boutiques.

[daffie]

Hello all!

 

Thanks for the answers, that helps me a lot.

I can check out the DRP number indeed.

 

Regards

[Zarus]

I quickly scanned my Montblanc Diary and Montblanc in Denmark books but couldn't find a picture of the exact pencil you've got.

 

I've found this lot in the Diary, but only in gold. They look like they're from the same period though, and might just be more expensive versions of the one you've got. At least some of them cary the same number (10):

 

 

This is an advertisement in the Montblanc in Denmark book. This one looks most like your pencil but has a completely different number:

 

 

And then this one, the number 12, also in the Montblanc in Denmark book. Without the clip but octagonal so probably in the same range as your pencil.

 

 

Regards,

 

Mark

 

 

[daffie]

Hi Mark,

 

Thanks for the pictures and your helps.

Those are beautiful pictures.

 

Regards

[Zarus]

I think I was able to find a reference to your pencil after all. I was browsing through an old 1936 catalog and found this one, the "achtkant" (octagonal) number 10, with clip: