Category: Germany
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 The company originally made office supplies, but had started making fountain pens by 1911, when they were granted this patent in France.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
Montblanc Meisterstück 14
The 14 was first released in 1959. It’s a piston filler with a hooded 18 k gold nib and an ink window, as can be seen in the photo below. The design of the cap band was intended to represent READ MORE
Geha set
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
Rotring 600, steel nib
This is a 2nd Generation Rotring 600. It’s difficult to ascertain the age of this pen, so I’m not going to guess. It has a steel, medium nib and is in excellent condition. The “gears” at the end of the READ MORE
Pelikan 100
The 100 was Pelikan’s first fountain pen, and was the first to use a differential piston system, patented by the Hungarian engineer, Theodor Kovacs (see this page for more details). This particular pen was probably made between 1932 and 1938 READ MORE