Bordeaux Resin Year Range

[FredRydr]

Please share the year range of Montblanc's production of bordeaux resin pens if you have it. I am not asking about the earlier darker burgundy pens or the lacquered pens.

 

Thanks.

[meiers]

I don't have a helpful answer -- except to say that the Bordeaux resin pens are my favourite in the Meisterstück series.

[Joane]

I don't have a helpful answer -- except to say that the Bordeaux resin pens are my favourite in the Meisterstück series.

Mine too!

[FredRydr]

Bordeaux resin was used for the Meisterstücks (a detail that would be a nice addition to the 149 and 146 tables in the pinned threads above), but it was also used for Montblanc's other models in the '60s and '70s.

[Solitaire146]

It seems that the 146 Burgundy/Bordeaux is available in two different shades of red a darker shade and a brighter shade.  Is this correct, or is there really just one shade available that can appear lighter or darker depending on lighting?

[Bisquitlips]

At one time I saw some Montblanc resin pens that were "Oxblood" in color.

 

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffnt&q=montblanc+oxblood&ia=web

 

I didn't care for them as they seemed rather dumbed down in color.  I believe they were from the 60's if memory serves.

[Dione]

Never knew there were two different colors of "red resin" pens.

[FredRydr]

The darker red that carried over from prewar MB pens has been denoted "burgundy" by European collectors I deal with.  I cannot confirm what Montblanc called the color (I've sold my Montblanc books and ephemera library).  However, the difference of burgundy when juxtaposed with lighter modern bordeaux pens is unmistakable.  Bordeaux and burgundy are often used synonymously here, which is misleading when the writer and the reader are thinking of different hues.  By the way, though easily outnumbered by black, bordeaux Meisterstuck pens are not rare as some suggest.