100th Anniversary editions

[fireant]

On 10/20/2024 at 8:05 AM, Lam1 said:

 

Congrats!

 

Nothing like an early Xmas gift to lift the spirit!! 😊

 

I know! I love them, you can select the OBBB right on the pen page online. Sebatian siad it might be a little later than November but that's okay.

 

 

[mulrich]

8 hours ago, Cyrille81 said:

There is The Origin LE100 but absolutely not in the same range price of the previous "general public" skeletons like the 90th, Blue Hour or Unicef

I figured there probably was an anniversary skeleton but I haven't been able to find pictures of it. Knowing the prices of the "general public" skeletons I would not be interested in buying but they're fun to gawk over. 

[fireant]

2 hours ago, mulrich said:

I figured there probably was an anniversary skeleton but I haven't been able to find pictures of it. Knowing the prices of the "general public" skeletons I would not be interested in buying but they're fun to gawk over. 

 
I feel ya. I bought an Asvine skelly so that I can use it and pretend it’s a real one.  I tried a friend’s (blue hour-if I remember right) years ago and I was wonderful. 

 

 

[Penguincollector]

On 10/20/2024 at 12:47 AM, fireant said:

 

Disregard, I ordered it through Fritz Schrimpf, it says delivery sometime in November. So it will be a very early Xmas gift.

 

   Woohoo! 🙌🏽 I’m excited for you! 

[Lam1]

On 10/21/2024 at 12:28 PM, NoType said:

@Lam1 If I am not much mistaken — and that is always a distinct possibility, so please correct me — that would actually have been a discounted price because all I could find back then were $17k price points for the 1914 Coral LE333.  Jomashop offered one a few years ago for around $9495 and it seemed to have sold immediately, sans warranty, pre-owned and all.

 

 

But, it doesn’t show availability, so you might be correct that it has sold out.  Perhaps Montblanc is holding on to a couple of examples?

 

Oh, apparently I was mistaken. I had the distinct impression that I saw a couple of these for sale at La Couronne du Comte (the store I patronized at  the time) for about $10 K.

 

Of course, the reason I didn't get one is that I don't go in for the "cheap" stuff 😂!

[NoType]

13 minutes ago, Lam1 said:

 

Oh, apparently I was mistaken. I had the distinct impression that I saw a couple of these for sale at La Couronne du Comte (the store I patronized at  the time) for about $10 K.

 

Of course, the reason I didn't get one is that I don't go in for the "cheap" stuff 😂!

 

@Lam1 Perhaps not, in which case prices like those may have contributed to the shop’s truncated longevity. 

 

But, of course, articles for the hoi-polloi are so declassé!

[Lam1]

1 hour ago, NoType said:

 

@Lam1 Perhaps not, in which case prices like those may have contributed to the shop’s truncated longevity. 

 

But, of course, articles for the hoi-polloi are so declassé!

🤣🤣

 

As for LCdC, you may be right. But I think it was more disorganization and the fact that they opened a new big brick and mortar store, which probably was unjustifiable.

The fact is that they went belly up and took my money with them: I had paid for a Namiki emperor and never received it, due to the delay I was only able to recover about $500 via my CC. 😭

[NoType]

4 hours ago, Lam1 said:

they went belly up and took my money with them: I had paid for a Namiki emperor and never received it, due to the delay I was only able to recover about $500 via my CC.

@Lam1 I am very sorry to hear this, and although, unfortunately, not an uncommon misadventure — you are definitely not alone in this painful experience — it is difficult to read nonetheless.

[Cyrille81]

16 hours ago, mulrich said:

I figured there probably was an anniversary skeleton but I haven't been able to find pictures of it. Knowing the prices of the "general public" skeletons I would not be interested in buying but they're fun to gawk over. 

You can have some photos here: https://collectorspreview.com/artisan-2024#scroll-nav__6

[NoType]

57 minutes ago, Cyrille81 said:

You can have some photos here: https://collectorspreview.com/artisan-2024#scroll-nav__6

@Cyrille81 Thank you for this link.  I had been searching for it and you have saved me much frustration and time.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[fpupulin]

[fpupulin]

Thanks to @Cyrille81's suggestion, I visited the page where Montblanc presents its skeletonized 149 for the 100th Anniversary of Meisterstück. It is obviously a pen completely beyond my means, and I am not even sure that I would want to have a pen of this type, but I found the combination of gold and green very beautiful and the use of the "bridge" clip particularly suited to this unique model.

[mulrich]

6 hours ago, Cyrille81 said:

You can have some photos here: https://collectorspreview.com/artisan-2024#scroll-nav__6

Thanks for sharing! I remember visiting the site a while back but didn't bookmark the link. 

I'd be surprised if any of those pens ever touched a drop of ink (which is totally fine). Those pens are more works of art that look like pens than writing instruments. I really like the calligraphy one. 

[Heinkle]

37 minutes ago, mulrich said:

Those pens are more works of art that look like pens than writing instruments.

 

Indeed, and I always circle back to "why then a fountain pen?" because these are essentially museum pieces.

[mulrich]

25 minutes ago, Heinkle said:

 

Indeed, and I always circle back to "why then a fountain pen?" because these are essentially museum pieces.

Art comes in countless mediums so why not a fountain pen? 

[a student]

30 minutes ago, Heinkle said:

 

Indeed, and I always circle back to "why then a fountain pen?" because these are essentially museum pieces.

One possibility is that such a pen makes a nice "gift" to persons in authority and power. I know of one such case where the solid gold MB carried motifs from the country in precious stones; seemingly one of a kind a made to order. Easy to conceal for the recipient and not having to report as invariably required.

[ak47]

1 hour ago, mulrich said:

Thanks for sharing! I remember visiting the site a while back but didn't bookmark the link. 

I'd be surprised if any of those pens ever touched a drop of ink (which is totally fine). Those pens are more works of art that look like pens than writing instruments. I really like the calligraphy one. 

I agree. I wish a 149 with italic nib with a price more affordable. 

[NoType]

8 hours ago, fpupulin said:

@fpupulin An apt aphorism expressed in such an artful manner graces this subforum in an incredibly beguiling manner, thanks to your elegant script, lush photography, and generosity.

[Arcadian]

23 hours ago, mulrich said:

Thanks for sharing! I remember visiting the site a while back but didn't bookmark the link. 

I'd be surprised if any of those pens ever touched a drop of ink (which is totally fine). Those pens are more works of art that look like pens than writing instruments. I really like the calligraphy one. 

 

Off topic, but on point regarding the link to the collector's preview - I saw the Klimt Limited 161 in Montblanc's shop in Vienna last week, and it is breathtakingly beautiful. The images do not do it justice. 

 

 - P. 

[fpupulin]

Repetita juvant, the Latins used to say, by repeating them many times things get better. Here I tried to improve my "motto" from a couple of days ago, on better paper and using two of my best "masterpieces", the 149 The Origin and the 149 Calligraphy. Two Meisterstücks.