What MBs are you using today?

[pavoni]

I was in an antiques shop today and there was a MB old about the size of my 144, but not a 144 probably 1950s. It was priced at $A125. I was having a good look at it and noticed this young fellow in his early 20's eyeing it and looking anxious. I got the impression that he really wanted it. I formed the view that as I had a couple of MBs and other fps of the same and better quality I would not purchase it but seeing the lad recognised quality I would leave it to him. The dealer knows me well and realised what I did and gave him a very good price. So somewhere a youngster is using a NOS MB today, I hope he joins the FPN, and hope he does not leave it in the university refectory.

 

 

Bravo. :clap1: I can only hope I would be so decent in such a situation. Wouldn't it be something if that lad were to join the FPN and ask for details on the pen.

 

Pavoni.

[Tom Aquinas]

I was in an antiques shop today and there was a MB old about the size of my 144, but not a 144 probably 1950s. It was priced at $A125. I was having a good look at it and noticed this young fellow in his early 20's eyeing it and looking anxious. I got the impression that he really wanted it. I formed the view that as I had a couple of MBs and other fps of the same and better quality I would not purchase it but seeing the lad recognised quality I would leave it to him. The dealer knows me well and realised what I did and gave him a very good price. So somewhere a youngster is using a NOS MB today, I hope he joins the FPN, and hope he does not leave it in the university refectory.

 

 

Bravo. :clap1: I can only hope I would be so decent in such a situation. Wouldn't it be something if that lad were to join the FPN and ask for details on the pen.

 

Pavoni.

Be super would'nt it.

[Ghost Plane]

One can only hope. Sounds a lovely time was had by all. I applaud you. :clap1:

[Redbarchettayyz]

Montblanc 34 OB with De Atrementis Sapphire- This pen is a treat to use, the big juicy stubby OB is a dream. I'm trying to write it empty so I can fill it with the new Rohrer & Klingner LE Blau-Schwarz that has been waiting patiently to be filled from in my ink drawer .

[Tiffanyhenschel]

OK. I'm coming out of the closet here. For a long time, I was not interested in MB because I thought they were over-hyped and over-priced. I guess you could say that rather than being a pen snob, I was an anti-pen snob.

 

 

I confess that I now have two 149s, a medium and a broad, and I write with them every day. Every pen that I pick up gets compared to how a 149 feels. The medium always drinks MB Lavender Purple, and the broad always drinks Noodler's Old Manhattan Black.

 

 

 

I will be looking for an xf and an OB soon.

[OC Mike]

149 B (cut to a CI by John Mottishaw) with MB Toffee Brown ink.

[Tom Aquinas]

My old Platinum plated silver Noblesse with a stub nib and inked with Florida Blue.

[sunnerd]

My Brahms (factory EF nib) with Diamond Blue ink.

[lovemy51]

the 124 -the only MB i own. :embarrassed_smile:

[pavoni]

My Brahms (factory EF nib) with Diamond Blue ink.

 

Sounds like a fabulous combination Sunnerd. I have a bottle of Diamond Blue but, as with a decent bottle of wine, I am waiting for the right moment before cracking it open. How would you rate the ink?

 

Pavoni.

[Montecristo]

1950's 149 EF (flexible) with Pilot Konpeki

Thomas Mann (m) with Akkerman Passage Blauw

Green / Grey striated 172k pencil with Yard-O-led B

and (off topic, but a great pen) Parker Snake (m) with Fountainpennetwork (Noodlers) Galileo Manuscript Brown

[BrandonA]

My Brahms (factory EF nib) with Diamond Blue ink.

 

Sounds like a fabulous combination Sunnerd. I have a bottle of Diamond Blue but, as with a decent bottle of wine, I am waiting for the right moment before cracking it open. How would you rate the ink?

 

Pavoni.

 

I have my MB Verne inked with the Diamond ink. I find it a lovely blue ink, slightly brighter than the standard MB blue in but not quite so bright as the Ink of ... (joy or friendship - whichever it is). Together the two compliment each other very well.

 

I also have my Poe inked with Mystery Black ink.

[ajha1970]

I'll be packing a 1990s 149 fine nib filled with MB blue black, an unsaturated slate blue with nice shading that has a beautiful vintage/weathered look. Probably my favorite ink of all time. My back up is a 1980s 146R medium nib filled with Pelikan blue black, a pretty nice shade of blue too, though darker. They'll be carried in my new old stock Diaries and Notes tan 2 pen case.

 

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MB 145 M, MB 146 F and thinking of MB 149

[adelaidepen]

Workhorse Medici

[Tom Aquinas]

MB 144 M nib, Quink Blue

[Redbarchettayyz]

All my inked pens are in my signature, but for Montblancs I actually used today;

 

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7110/7828514618_6f4047ea40.jpg

Montblanc 234 1/2 g, Flexible M, Pelikan Edelstein Topaz

 

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Montblanc 34 , OB, De Atramentis Sapphire

[GardenWeasel]

MB 146, broad nib & De Atramentis Steel Blue. With this ink, it writes like a BB nib!

[cnjackson]

My new (to me) 146 med. with Aurora Blue! Just got this pen at the DC pen show, and I'm in love with it!

 

Chris

[PBW]

I got some new paper today so everything that was on the table got a turn to see how the paper reacted. Shaw, Wilde, Hitchcock, LeGrande Diamond BP, and a Tibute BP were all the MB's used. The paper, Tomae River(see thread in paper section) held up very well and is quite possibly the best I have ever written on.

[slowpoke2]

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The 136 and 146 are new to me (thanks Shrinknib!!). Here's another shot of these two.

 

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