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Cool pen! I also have one Simplo, but the tip of the nib is completely worn off, and I'm not even sure that my nib is original. Yours looks great.

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Andrew, had a look onto your webpage (in your signature). That is gorgeous and a lot of talent and hard work goes into such sketches!! I am not even begin to understand the significance of the last 200 days for your nation, but I can fully comprehend the pain and hope put in every sketch and drawing! 

 

I also gather that you are into photography, and so am I: www.juliantanase.com, as an amateur enthusiast of B&W film and classic cameras. Hopefully this can develop in some other conversational subjects :) .

 

And thank you for your beautiful and heartfelt work!

 

Best!

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8 hours ago, Andrew_L said:

Thank you!

If ink window is blue, it must be an earlier model, approximately 1975-1976. I wonder, is you have a springy nib also or semi-flexible? My ink is also semi-vintage)), I think about 1990-2000, still in the "shoe" with smooth corners, but the color is similar to modern Royal Blue.

 

ps: I know mother, but I haven't seen her in a long time))

I purchased the 146—they had numbers back then, new, in about 1986. Of course, it could have been in stock for a while before I received it. After thirty-six years or so, it started leaking at the section. I tightened the nib a little bit with my wrench, but it still leaked. One of the men repairers at the San Francisco Pen Show said that I should unscrew the nib, clean the parts, and reassemble them with some silicone grease. When I got home, I took the pen apart. The threads were sealed with a reddish thread sealer. That's as far as I've gotten. I can't find my silicone grease, so I guess that I'll order some more. In any event, it is one of my favorite pens.

 

To answer your question, the 14K nib is very stiff—no flex to speak of. I like it that way. 

"One can not waste time worrying about small minds . . . If we were normal, we'd still be using free ball point pens." —Bo Bo Olson

 

"I already own more ink than a rational person can use in a lifetime." —Waski_the_Squirrel

 

I'm still trying to figure out how to list all my pens down here.

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Today I'm using a vintage Montblanc 144 from the 1980s (not sure on the exact year.  My favorite purchase from the New York Metropolitan Pen Show!

"Live like you were dying" ~Tim McGraw.  Truer words have never been spoken, and you'll never know that until you've had to fight for your life.

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(half-vtg. Montblanc Meisterstuck 146, vtg. Montblanc Royal Blue, Double A(A4))

 

http://lenskiy.org/2022/09/montblanc-146-meisterstuck-from-1980s/

 

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(Montblanc Meisterstuck 146 French edition, Diamine Wild Strawberry, Double A(A4))

 

http://lenskiy.org/2022/11/montblanc-146-meisterstuck-1990-french-edition/

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Just inked up my new (to me) 149!

"Live like you were dying" ~Tim McGraw.  Truer words have never been spoken, and you'll never know that until you've had to fight for your life.

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Received this one last December after its nib change to an OB, got sick and had been busy. Ink of choice is the Homer Greek Blue.
 

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This thread reminds me I am not using any of my MB. Time to refill them from time to time .

Lovely share  and stories of all the MontBlanc .

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Well, I needed to make some circles today, and I thought myself, “Hey self, why don’’t you use that that new-fangled circle nib thingy.”

 

I whipped out the old 149C, that’s what I call it, and…

 

All I can say is WOW, just Wow.

“ I know you think you understand what you thought I said but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant”  Alan Greenspan

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Today i inked my latest buy. Lets see how he will do, normally i do not use Meisterstücke (Have the Hamburg and the Tribute to Montblanc) more Great Characters or Writers Editions, but i love the color blue and i very liked the Lapislazuli with this Pen.

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15 hours ago, mstrl said:

Today i inked my latest buy. Lets see how he will do, normally i do not use Meisterstücke (Have the Hamburg and the Tribute to Montblanc) more Great Characters or Writers Editions, but i love the color blue and i very liked the Lapislazuli with this Pen.

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Hi. Which model is it?

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