What's Your Most Recent Mb Purchase? 2016

[Mister Mont Blanc]

 

Excellent! Thanks! I think I will buy one next time I am near the boutique.

 

No problem! Lucky you that you have a boutique to play around with them... I had to go off of internet pictures but I am more than pleased with it. It's actually in my shirt pocket right now! I find myself wanting to carry it around just to look at it even when I have no need to use a pen!

[Raidon]

I got the Augmented paper and pen set. I will give my thoughts once I start using it properly

[Heartsleeve]

 

 

 

Thank you, Tom... and thank you for the lovely handwritten image! Lovely pen you have there.... is that a rose-gold nib? Be still, my heart!

[Tom Kellie]

Thank you, Tom... and thank you for the lovely handwritten image! Lovely pen you have there.... is that a rose-gold nib? Be still, my heart!

 

 

~ Heartsleeve:

 

You're most welcome!

Yes, that's a 90th Anniversary rose-gold 146 B nib.

My only B nib, and my only 146, it's great fun to use.

Thank you for the generous compliment.

I hope that your recently acquired Writers Edition fountain pens are providing you with much writing pleasure.

Tom K.

[Heartsleeve]

I haven't received the Va Woolf yet - early next week, I hope. But I love the William Shakespeare... and the Marcel Proust was a work horse, back before I retired and fell down the Rabbit Hole of fountain pen collecting in earnest... seems like every month now, a new beauty attracts my attention. If only my fixed income weren't so fixed! Thanks, again, Tom.

 

 

[BlkWhiteFilmPix]

Beautiful combination and lovely line variation. It looks like a joy to write with!

 

Very nice, thanks for posting - and for including the writing sample.

[BlkWhiteFilmPix]

On a used 149 bought six years ago with a fine nib, replaced the F with a used O3B signature nib.

 

 

Very wet writer.

 

 

 

 

Don't know why photo's posting sideways, sorry.

 

Edited October 7, 2016 by BlkWhiteFilmPix

[konis]

Montblanc 234 1/2 with palladium nib.

regards

[awl1688]

Ultra Black Classique fountain pen, and pen pouch.20160909_081729.jpg

I've been eyeing that pen pouch. How do you like it?

[Dorf]

I've been eyeing that pen pouch. How do you like it?

Thanks, I like it very much. It's stiff and structured.

[farmdogfan]

A coral red danish MB "2", from between 1937 and 1946.

 

 

[Cordovian]

Finally convinced myself that I had to have a JFK. I justified it as an early Christmas present to me.

Can't wait till it gets here!

http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/6s0AAOSwm8VUzUbd/s-l1600.jpg

[Dcharles]

Vintage 234 1/2 with the most amazing nib, even softer than my 1912. I'll make an attempt to get some pictures up.

[Pendantic]

Rouge et Noir black fountain pen. It came back from MB in Hamburg yesterday with a lovely OM nib, changed from the original M. It has a degree of flex, and writes beautifully.

[Tom Kellie]

~ Pendantic:

 

Your semi-flex OM nib sounds lovely.

That's a fine choice.

May your Rouge et Noir black fountain pen bring you much joy!

Tom K.

[jmccarty3]

Recently won an auction on the Bay for the Cigar Case. I plan to use it to transport my 149s.

 

http://i.imgur.com/6ETeE5o.jpg

[Pravda]

Recently won an auction on the Bay for the Cigar Case. I plan to use it to transport my 149s.

 

http://i.imgur.com/6ETeE5o.jpg

 

 

 

The latest hard case in leather from Montblanc is perfect for the 1914, tried it out last week. Only downside, it costs as much as a 146 Solitaire for some reason!

[Valdair]

After much internal debate, I finally ordered a Heritage 1912 (B nib) from La Couronne du Comte. Thanks to VAT and a couple discounts it was not actually that painful of a purchase. Had to wait for them to come back in stock, then another week to get it delivered. The pen finally arrived on Thursday.

 

http://i.imgur.com/nz1ZCSd.jpgThe lovely box. Taken in my office with a smartphone camera.

 

http://i.imgur.com/7HtqFfV.jpgThe nib is incredibly stubby - just the way I like it. Had to run it over some micromesh for a bit to clear up some minor hard starting problems on cross-strokes (the tines seem a little too close together still but it writes very well with minimal pressure).

 

http://i.imgur.com/NtjeYfp.jpgMy favorite part of the pen. Twirling the cap around and watching the emblem catch the light is breathtaking. It's definitely an interesting pen. It feels like a mystery box, where you have this incredibly compact form factor that uncaps and reveals one of the largest pen bodies ever, then you reveal the nib, and a separate mechanism fills it, all elegantly tied together in an unassuming piston mechanism. Opening it feels like an occasion.

 

I had read that the nib is described as soft, but not flexible. I think this very accurately describes it - the gold nib gives easily under pressure but pushing more only gives you a slightly wetter line. It's a pleasure to use.

[Tom Kellie]

~ Valdair:

 

Those photographs set a high standard for quality.

Thank you for sharing this description of your B nib Heritage 1912 pen.

May your elegant pen provide you much writing pleasure!

Tom K.

[sandy101]

Apart from beautiful decoration, does the nib on the Shakespeare perform any differently than the nibs on the "standard" 146?