Still, from the time I took it out of the box and started using it the piston mechanism has moved smoothly.
My particular pen is probably from the 1970s. I find the grip to be a good size for my hand. There aren’t really any options or other features to speak of. It is a cigar-shaped pen, so the ends are rounded and not flat. The barrel has an ink window in it so that you can check on your ink level. It’s a piston filler, so it holds plenty of ink in that large barrel. The large, #9 nib (that’s what the 9 in 149 stands for) is two-toned Au 750 (18K) gold. It comes in black and has either gold or platinum-coated trim, so not exactly the flashiest pen on the market. Not being a Montblanc expert, I’m going to stop there, but I’m sure that if you’re interested, with a little research you can find many stories that will add to the mystique of the 149. It is also a large pen, so at a time when most fountain pens were significantly smaller, it surely stood out in comparison to other pens. With the 149 sitting at the top of the company’s regular pen offerings, many see it as the best of the best. Longevity aside, Montblanc has always been known as a luxury brand. Can you think of many (or any) other fountain pens that have been continuously produced since then? I’m not sure I can. What makes it an iconic fountain pen? For one thing, it has been around since the early 1950s. I don’t have anything against it per se, but I have a hard time spending that much on any fountain pen. As I said earlier, it is not a pen that I would have purchased for myself. For some it is a grail pen, while for others it is an overpriced status symbol. As you probably know, the Montblanc 149 is one of those iconic fountain pens that everyone seems to have an opinion about. That’s enough story time… let’s talk about the pen itself. The country on the clip band can be used to help date the pen. Does it actually say 149? Did I just inherit a Montblanc 149!? When it came into view, I did a double take. I rotated the pen in my hands and looked for the model number on the cap band. It was big! At this point in my collecting, I’d never actually seen a Montblanc in person, but I knew where to look for the model number. Once I recovered from the initial shock, I took it out of the box and looked at it. But then I opened the box and saw the white star on top of the cap! My heart skipped a few beats and I had to set it down, as I instantly became worried I’d drop and break it. So, with some intrigue but little hope, I took the pen box from her to see what was inside.Īs I pulled the pen box from the outer sleeve and saw “Montblanc” stamped into the top, I still thought that it was probably just a Montblanc box with some other type of pen inside. She handed me a pen box in an unmarked cardboard sleeve and said, “I think it’s a Montblanc.” “Ha,” I thought to myself, “she probably just heard that name somewhere and said it because it sounded familiar.” My grandfather worked at a bank but wore overalls at home and loved to go fishing, so he wasn’t what I would consider to be the Montblanc type. Later that evening she said that she had found his pen! I always try to keep my expectations low when someone says that they have a pen for me, as I am always overjoyed to receive any pen that was owned by someone I know, regardless of how “valuable” or “rare” it is.
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