My Personal "vintage" Montblanc Collection

[fountainbel]

Hi all Montblanc lovers !
Seeing all your beautiful Montblanc collections,i wanted to share also my personal collection
Attached a picture of my "actual" vintage Montblanc collection.
As you will see on the picture, i've restricted myself to piston fillers.
Being a mechanical design engineer, I'm very much impressed by the unique telescopic filler on the 13X and 14X series.
This system is extremely beautiful and clever designed and I can't get enough of it !
Bringing such a beauty back to life is so rewarding, I really love to work on these pens.
I bought 2 of these with cracked/ split barrel threads,and on one of them the barrel was cracked at the filler side.
But with patience and tender love and care I was able to restore them all.
Hope you enjoy....
Francis
http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h89/fountainbel/My%20personal%20fountain%20pen%20collection/P1000393.jpg

 

The Gallery

[orfew]

Wow, such a wonderful collection. Thanks very much for sharing those pictures. I especially love the striated celluloid models.

[Penne Stilografiche]

Impressive and beautiful collection, I love the 139!

[sarahfar]

Very impressive and such depth. Wow if they could talk, so much history.

[jasam]

Amazing collection. Thanks for sharing it!

[pavoni]

Well, seeing the title of this post, and then to see it was by Francis, made logging on all the more enjoyable this evening. Wonderful collection. A really super treat. One can only imagine how perfectly those pens must work. Thank you for sharing with us Francis.

 

Pavoni.

[georges zaslavsky]

nice collection Francis thanks for sharing

[johnkim424]

Francis, your link is not working. I want to see pictures of your pens.....

[BMG]

Lovely collection! (Especially the striated ones .)

[isaacrn]

Awesome collection. I may be ignorant here, but do you find it easier to find vintage/hard to find pens living in Europe?

[Fabienne]

Alas, I can't see your pens. I am sure they are lovely.

[farmdogfan]

What a fabulous collection!

[fountainbel]

Alas, I can't see your pens. I am sure they are lovely.

Alas, I can't see your pens. I am sure they are lovely.

I'm very sorry, but it seems I can't attach the pictures directly anymore, although it works perfectly on other sites....

I've add a second direct link, does this work ?

I would be grateful is one of you could post the picture directly, unfortunately i'm rather clumsy with computer stuff....

Francis

[Daniele]

Beautiful pens!

 

http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m141/daniele_teppa/fountainbel.jpg

[Sblakers]

Beautiful collection !

[JLS1]

Francis, thanks for posting this. FYI, the 2nd link works fine, but I'll repost the picture here for everyone's enjoyment. (Now THIS is what I want my collection to look like...once I win the lottery, that is. MB 139s don't come cheap! )

 

[fountainbel]

Francis, thanks for posting this. FYI, the 2nd link works fine, but I'll repost the picture here for everyone's enjoyment. (Now THIS is what I want my collection to look like...once I win the lottery, that is. MB 139s don't come cheap! )

 

Thank you all for your kind help in posting the picture directly !

And yes, prices of the 139 went up dramatically lately.

I've just seen an Ebay Germany listing with an asking price of 4400.00€... which i could surely not afford !

 

Francis

See : http://www.ebay.de/itm/Montblanc-L139-Silver-rings-steel-nib-in-B-Boxed-Near-mint-1950-/231005770347?pt=DE_Haus_Garten_HomeOffice_Schreibgeräte&hash=item35c904526b

[watch_art]

The 139 is a lovely pen, but I'd take one of those striated versions over that any day.

[da vinci]

A wonderful collection - thank you for posting the picture.

[sunnerd]

Wow. Those green striateds Thanks for sharing Francis!