Database -> Montblanc -> Vintage Pens Prewar
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| Description | Here is an extremely rare Montblanc pen, one of the very early pens. Some features listed here to make sure it is all original. 1. cap top is red, made from ebonite. Interestingly, white stars were made from Galalithe/Kasein, milled and inserted into the cap top. while the red rouge e noir stars were from ebonite, and kind of poured into the cap top milling, and vulcanized there. This explains, why red stars look like soldered into the cap top, while white stars are visibly inserted. This one here, the flat red top, of course, was turned from solid red rod, threaded and screwed into the cap top base. 2. cap top and turning knob knurling, its made using a very fine pitch knurl, around 80 tpi (tracks per inch) Finding a cross knurled cap top and a straight knurled barrel would be a clear indication, that some parts have been replaced with newer parts. 3. cap top is about 0.5 mm larger than cap. 4. cap tube has 4 ventholes, near the cap top. 5. this pen has one modern part added: the cap lip has been replaced with a new piece of ebonite. 6. Feed is straight, with one long groove cut for the silver pin safety feature. Feed and nib carrier rod, the part that runs into the spiral, are made from one piece... Waterman pens and others used a different technique - a loose feed, pushed into a cup. 7. nib has a large imprint, Simplo goes all around the curvature of the nib. Take a close look at the makro pic, you see, this is an imprint, not an engraving. The gold is impressed, leaving rounded edges. And often, you see the imprint in reverse on the underside of the nib. Engravings on an already finished nib cannot go that much around the curvature of the nib. And as the operation is a milling operation, material is removed. No rounded edges, nothing visible on the underside. |
| Seller | Penboard_Tom |
| Item No. | 112732 |
| Brand | Montblanc |
| Model | Rouge Et Noir no 8 black hard rubber safety filler |
| Year | 1920 |
| System | safety no. 8 size |
| Colour | black hard rubber |
| Condition | excellent, fully working, very good imprint on cap, no barrel imprint, turning knob imprint 8 m - cap lip professionally restored. |
| Nib | 14 K gold nib, SIMPLO New York , Medium tip |
| Remarks | very rare no. 8 size with flat red top |
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