To Engrave or not to Engrave?

[Wael El-Dasher]

Kurt,

 

I am going off memory here, but I believe you sign three times and you pick the best one. These procedures may have changed so I would certainly check with the store you will send your pen through.

 

cheers

 

W

 

Kurt,

 

They did a good job actually. My signature is not easy so I was happy that they were able to get it about right. I need to buy a new camera as I can't find my old one and I'll upload it for your judgment.

 

cheers

 

W

 

Good to know as I've looked at the signatures and wondered. Another question if I may did you do a few runs of your signature and pick the best or just sign & be done?

 

I'm not sure which way I would do it.

 

 

Kurt

 

[Titivillus]

Kurt,

 

I am going off memory here, but I believe you sign three times and you pick the best one. These procedures may have changed so I would certainly check with the store you will send your pen through.

 

cheers

 

W

Thanks for the info!

 

Kurt

 

[Titivillus]

And one question remains to be asked should the MB Writer's editions have the signatures engraved on them? :hmm1:

[bitterwonder]

I am rather private and would not engrave.

My friend's son bought an Aurora Talentum for me, and chose to have my name engraved on it.

After two years, I look at it as a link to my family members' pens with engraved names,

and stuff I have acquired with other peoples names from the 19th and early 20th centuries. It is kind of like them stretching out over the years to me.

I would not choose to do it, but owning this engraved personalized pen is not terrible.

 

[Pen Nut]

I have considered engraving my pens with OTHER PEOPLE's names. That way, if I decide to sell, the pens will be ready to go with the new person's name.

 

 

Is there only me that spots a slight flaw in this plan??

[niksch]

And one question remains to be asked should the MB Writer's editions have the signatures engraved on them? :hmm1:

 

I think no on this question. Where, on some of the WEs, would they put your name? On the cap on some WEs, and on the barrel for others, but what about the Faulkner (about my second or third favorite)?

 

Eric

[Blade Runner]

If there's space on the cap, I think an engraving on a WE is fine.

[Titivillus]

If there's space on the cap, I think an engraving on a WE is fine.

 

I mean should the Author's name be engraved on the pen, does it reduce the value because it is there :roflmho:

 

[Blade Runner]

If there's space on the cap, I think an engraving on a WE is fine.

 

I mean should the Author's name be engraved on the pen, does it reduce the value because it is there :roflmho:

I don't think you have the option. :roflmho:

Edited January 4, 2009 by jeen

[MDI]

It's okay to engrave, but never to dip (let alone ink!)

[GardenCity-NY]

I just got my dads 149 which is engraved with his first initial and full sir name. (The name is spelled wrong but thats a different story). The engraving is very subtle and makes this pen unique, so I do apprecaite it being so in this case. IN the case that the pen was brand new I would have to think long and hard about doing anything to it... :hmm1:

[Mrs Palmer]

I'm not really a collector, but just on the elusive hunt for the "perfect" pen, le sigh!

 

I would totally buy a pen with someone else's name engraved on it. That's cool! As long as the pen writes the way I want and doesn't spit on me, I don't care so much about things like that.

[ethernautrix]

You know what I remember most about this pen purchase? The sales lady showed me MB Hemingway and told me she had both the 149 and the Hemingway for the same price. I thought to myself...Hemingway, such a fad! Now I kick myself for not buying it for $500 or so at the time, and I lust after a clean 139.

I bought the Hemingway in late '92 or early '93, had it engraved with my then name. I use the pen daily now.

[Blade Runner]

You know what I remember most about this pen purchase? The sales lady showed me MB Hemingway and told me she had both the 149 and the Hemingway for the same price. I thought to myself...Hemingway, such a fad! Now I kick myself for not buying it for $500 or so at the time, and I lust after a clean 139.

I bought the Hemingway in late '92 or early '93, had it engraved with my then name. I use the pen daily now.

Ethernautrix,

What was the circumstance behind that purchase and where did you buy it? Quite a bodacious move!

I've only seen one when Bloomingdales was selling them.

 

Best,

Jeen

[hefilcon]

I have engraved my initials on my starwalker rollerball and I would engrave my beloved 149er (my daily writer), too. I will never sell them, so why shouldn´t I personalize them?

But my limited editons....I would never ever engrave something on them.

[Daniel7]

In general I am not pro engraving pen. But throught the time, several MBs I used at work tended to vanish in the universe

So I decided to have them engraved, in the beginning plain name on the barrel or cap, but as I don't find it very nice, and discussing it with a friend, I am having now the pens engraved with my initials on the clip. It's discreet and prefectly serves the target, as since then no pen has vanished anymore.

Cheers,

 

 

daniel

[Titivillus]

And one question remains to be asked should the MB Writer's editions have the signatures engraved on them? :hmm1:

 

I think no on this question. Where, on some of the WEs, would they put your name? On the cap on some WEs, and on the barrel for others, but what about the Faulkner (about my second or third favorite)?

 

Eric

 

Eric,

reading through a few of the WE booklets I've gotten and found that MB makes suggestions for where to put the engraving.

 

K

 

[ethernautrix]

Ethernautrix,

What was the circumstance behind that purchase and where did you buy it? Quite a bodacious move!

I've only seen one when Bloomingdales was selling them.

 

Best,

Jeen

Hello, Jeen.

 

I was living in San Francisco and saw the Mb Hemingway in the Fountain Pen Hospital catalogue. Or it might have been Fahrney's Pens catalogue. Pretty sure it was FPH, though. The retail price was $650, but (whoever it was) was selling it for $600 plus the single cigar-type case.

 

When the pen arrived, I was aghast. I thought it was so ugly! It was so ugly that I kept looking at it... and looking at it (thinking at first to return it). And then I realized... it was a thing of beauty!

 

I don't remember what about it caught my attention. Maybe cos it looked so different from all the pens I'd been buying (primarily Watermans -- Executives, Laureats, LeMans -- and Sheaffers -- Targas, Connaisseurs). And I probably decided to have it engraved, cos I'd already tossed the box and knew that I wanted to keep it (this was many years before I came across FPN. I didn't know that people bought and sold and traded their pens. Anyway, I had no intention of willingly giving up this pen). AND I probably thought that sending it away so soon after receiving it was good practice in anticipation and patience.

 

And I was married then, so it has one of the names I have had engraved in the cap. It's an historical relic!

 

Cheers!

 

Lisa

Edited January 23, 2009 by ethernautrix

[ribbit]

I probably wouldn't engrave a pen straight away, but if it was a proven keeper, why not?

 

I just went here to preview the options, and I <heart> initials on the clip-subtle and classy I think.

 

http://www.montblanc.com/index_engraving.php

 

 

[Philip1209]

Engraving adds sentimental value, but decreases monetary value. My friends bought me a Sheaffer Prelude for my birthday that they had my name engraved on, and I absolutely love the pen. The pen holds great sentimental value, and the engraving makes it much more special. However, I would not engrave my signature on a pen where I felt it hurt the aesthetics (No offense to Bryan at the Edison Pen Company, but I feel that his brand engravings do exactly this). Overall, if you are giving this pen as a gift or purchasing it to commemorate an important event in your life, then engraving it may suit you well. However, ask yourself this: If the pen wrote terribly, would you still keep it? If not, then engraving may not be your best choice.