The Montblanc 74 pen is identical to the Montblanc 14 “Bishop’s hat” – the only difference between the two is the rolled gold cap on the 74. This pen required a minimal amount of cleaning and polish. However, the fluted READ MORE
Montblanc 74
Category: Germany
Montblanc 252
The Montblanc 252 was probably made in the 1950’s in Germany. It’s a small-sized piston filler with a rather unique-looking gold nib. It was designed by Albrecht von Goertz, a German-American who primarily designed cars for manufacturers such as BMW READ MORE
Geha 780
The Geha Company was started in Hannover, Germany in 1918 by two brothers, Heinrich and Conrad Hartmann. (The company name is a shortened form of Gebrüder Hartmann, or Hartmann Brothers). The company, which started production of fountain pens in the 1950’s, was READ MORE
A tour of the Pelikan factory
The making of Faber-Castell pencils
The Making of a Montblanc
Pelikan Engraving Machine
This pen engraver would have been used at a Pelikan dealer to engrave the name of the owner. The system is a pantograph, where the operator uses a stylus to trace letters that are arranged in the block on the READ MORE
Montblanc 34
The Montblanc 34 was in production in Hamburg from 1961 to 1970 and, along with the 32, were designed to be lower-cost variants of the 22 and 24. This is a piston-filler pen with a 14 carat gold nib (the READ MORE
Montblanc Meisterstück 14
This is a Meisterstück 14, with a medium nib. It had a single owner from Copenhagen who purchased it around 1960 and then sold it to me 50 years later… This one took considerable work to get back in shape. READ MORE
Matador Express 814
Siebert & Löwen was founded in 1895 by Adolf Siebert and Ewald Löwen in Wuppertal-Elberfeld (near Düsseldorf). The company originally made office supplies, but had started making fountain pens by 1911, when they were granted this patent in France. One of READ MORE