Am I Seeing Mb Vintage Fakes On Ebay?!?!

[JLS1]

Doing my usual eBay cruising while my son sleeps and found these three auctions for MB pens:

1. Green hatch pattern w/replacement gold nib

2. Cream & gold w/glass nib

3. Cream & pearl w/gold glass nib

 

When I started looking at the pens in detail, I noticed a few things:

- the MB stamps look kind of 'modern' (font, imprint has gunk around it, which I've never seen w/any of my vintage MBs, and certainly not on the 14x Meisterstucks...)

- the Meisterstuck is engraved at the end of the cap and the 'K' looks like it's wiped out

- the MB stars look a little like decals

- the clips are all wrong (although there's plenty of MBs with replacement clips out there)

- the blind caps look strange (FWIW, these could be replacements...)

- there's no cap bands and/or WW-II era engravings where the cap bands would have been otherwise

- I don't ever remember seeing an MB with a glass nib...although I don't see why these couldn't exist.

 

This triggered my memory of Francis' previous post of his fake vintage MB and it made me wonder if these are now filtering through to eBay? Maybe I'm just paranoid (I've been accused of worse) but what do you think?

Edited February 8, 2014 by JLS1

[HermetiC]

These are not Montblancs. Please click in the Report item link and report it as counterfeit.

[Paul80]

In the sellers defence he does say he is just listing them as German made piston fillers as he had not seen Montblanc pens like the three he is selling before.

 

I have seen the design before but cannot for the life of me remember where.

 

Shame there are no nib shots.

 

Paul

[sxl2004]

Hi,

 

I have an Osmia 126 with the pattern of the first pen. The ebay pen is not a 126 but some pen from the Heidelberg area?

 

Joerg

Edited February 8, 2014 by sxl2004

[sunnerd]

What they did was to heat stamp a Montblanc sign, put on a snowcap from an old parts pen, and used a Soennecken candy stripe pen.

 

If the ad had no "Montblanc" mentioned in the title, then it's ok and not misleading/malicious, but since the entry has the word "Montblanc" in there, the seller is advertising a fake pen and should be reported and removed.

[fountainbel]

Clearly fakes in my opinion.

Most probably made in Eastern Europe in the sixties of past century.

Francis

[crazypencollector]

I called Ebay and they had me relist them without mentioning the word Montblanc to stay safe , as Sunnerd stated.

I saw them on Ebay Germany last month. Paid $400 Canadian.

When I got them, I didn't see anything similar on Ebay , So I listed them as pens with Montblanc imprints ,as I don't know much about old Montblancs and there isn't much info ,on early colorful ones atleast...

So,they are back on for good if anyone is interested in them,whatever they are:)

Edited February 9, 2014 by crazypencollector