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Hi,

I need your opinions please.

I've recently bought a Montblanc 149 from a friend of a friend. It must be a recent one (serial number has more letters than numbers).
It was sold to me as being new, never inked, and as having a medium nib.

When I unpacked it, I've immediately thought the nib seemed too wide for a medium and after writing with it, I'm fairly certain that it is not a medium nib.
The cardboard outside box does not contain a label with nib size as I'm used to seeing, and the pen did not have a tag. All my previous MBs had both. Is this normal at all?

Writing, it feels a lot more like a stub than a round tip, and it's actually very similar to writing with a Visconti HS 1.3 stub. Certainly very different from the M on the 146 or EA Poe.

From the images below, what's your opinion? Medium or B (or BB)? Or any other suggestions to what's going on here?

 

(Sorry for the poor quality of the images - was too lazy to get the tripod out)

Thanks


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http://i1355.photobucket.com/albums/q707/ajlmarques/20150817-2857e-2_zpspjabp0fk.jpg

http://i1355.photobucket.com/albums/q707/ajlmarques/20150817-2857e-3_zpsvqcmke3n.jpg

http://i1355.photobucket.com/albums/q707/ajlmarques/20150817-2857e-4_zpsbtsqm0s1.jpg

http://i1355.photobucket.com/albums/q707/ajlmarques/20150817-2857e-5_zpsotni4y7i.jpg

http://i1355.photobucket.com/albums/q707/ajlmarques/20150817-2857e-6_zpsoosuwgco.jpg

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They do run broad, but this doesn't look like M to me. Fortunately it's not difficult to have an artisan give it just the characteristics you want.

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They do run broad, but this doesn't look like M to me.

 

But that different from other M nibs on other of their big pens like the EA Poe?!?

 

And I don't mind the width, I actually prefer a nice wide stub, so it's all good. :)

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It sure looks like a B nib. Why not sell it if you don't care for it?

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I do not have a 149, but I do know that the tipping on my medium (verified with stickers and the label on the box) 146 looks nothing like that. The medium nib is just a regular rounded tip of iridium. The ones I've seen that look like yours are typically a broad or higher, as others have stated.

 

Also, off-topic, but what color ink is that? I really like it.

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It sure looks like a B nib. Why not sell it if you don't care for it?

 

Oh I do care for it. Being wider than M (and stub to boot) is not a bad thing at all. I just like to know what I'm writing with :)

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Also, off-topic, but what color ink is that? I really like it.

 

 

It's a very very interesting ink - Sailor Jentle Miruai.

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That's at least a B. Ms have round tips. B & above come stubbed.

 

+1. Its most likely a B.

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