Fritz Schimpf The Expressive

[empliau]

On Instagram, Fritz Schimpf posted that they're selling one of their Montblanc The Expressive - a collector who apparently filled it and wrote with it once then cleaned and stored it. This was their 149 with flex/italic nib.

 

For those without access to Instagram, the contact info is service@fritz-schimpf.de.  No price is listed in the ad.

 

No affiliation, but I really like mine, and someone who missed out may want to get this one.

[a student]

It is for sale on the website. The price of 3500 Euro does not seem attractive to me personally but others, with a deeper interest in the particular nib, may well see it as a bargain. 

 

At that price I suspect you could likely get a bespoke nib on a 149 from MB

[Arcadian]

It's a great pen. Probably the best of all nibs in my collection. A little too wide for daily use, though. 

 

 - P. 

[Claes]

Doesn't "flexible italic" sound a bit odd?

[empliau]

6 minutes ago, Claes said:

Doesn't "flexible italic" sound a bit odd?

[empliau]

If you've got the skills, it's a fabulous pen. Not that I have Sebastian's skills.

[Lam1]

37 minutes ago, a student said:

It is for sale on the website. The price of 3500 Euro does not seem attractive to me personally but others, with a deeper interest in the particular nib, may well see it as a bargain. 

 

At that price I suspect you could likely get a bespoke nib on a 149 from MB

 

Last I heard, the bespoke nib is 1600 euros. So, for that price you can buy the pen, the bespoke nib and still have about 1000 euros left!

It seems way overpriced, in my opinion.

[empliau]

It seems from the website that the pen has been sold.

[Zdenek]

mmm... original price was 1390 EUR. 

[Amit.]

11 hours ago, Zdenek said:

mmm... original price was 1390 EUR. 

That's exactly what i was thinking.

 

[a student]

14 hours ago, Zdenek said:

mmm... original price was 1390 EUR. 

Fritz-Schimf, a fountain pen store with a tradition and a well deserved reputation for service, and presumably also a dedicated promoter of the art of writing, 1390 EUR was a price not entirely unfriendly to the customer. The basis for this 3500 EUR seems puzzling indeed

 

I would encourage Fritz-Shimpf to consider producing more such calligraphic MBs, but at prices that are closer to 1390 EUR

[Arcadian]

The price is high, but then again - there were only 100 made. Anything from Montblanc in a limited production of 100 is going to be expensive. The noteworthy thing is not the price of EUR 3.500 now, but that it was ever priced so low as 1.390.  And the nib is not, I think, available in the bespoke nib program, though I am not entirely certain on that point. 

 

 - P. 

[empliau]

An economist would argue that something is worth what someone will pay, and the pen sold within hours of being made available.  Only a very few people would be willing to pay that price, but then again, they only needed one.

[JCC123]

PT Barnum quote comes in handy here.

[fireant]

On 10/1/2024 at 11:21 AM, Zdenek said:

mmm... original price was 1390 EUR. 

 

I didn't realize how much they listed it for. Ouch.

[inkstainedruth]

On 10/2/2024 at 9:39 PM, JCC123 said:

PT Barnum quote comes in handy here.

 

Yeah....  I know the quote you're thinking of.... 

Of course, it doesn't hurt that for 3 years in college (University of Bridgeport -- back BEFORE it became "Moon U", thank you VERY much!) I was in a dorm named after him: "Phineas Taylor Barnum Hall".   And there was a rumor that an elephant's remains were buried in the ground outside the campus dining hall....

Of course, have NO idea why a women's dorm was named for him, while the next door men's dorm was named for the woman who ran the Barnum Museum for years.... 

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth