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The Secret History of a Mont Blanc Fountain Pen

Fountain Pens

The Secret History of a Mont Blanc Fountain Pen

Mont Blanc has been for generations a known brand name and maker of high-quality, sophisticated, and fine instruments for writing. Mont Blanc was started by a stationer in Hamburg, Germany in 1906 but was first named as the Simplo Filler Pen Company in 1908. It initially sold US manufactured products. After three years, it acquired the Mont Blanc trademark, after Western Europe's highest mountain peak. By the 1920's, the company was into manufacturing its own line of pens.

Today, Mont Blanc is the name that many people associate not just with the famous mountain but also with a fountain pen. Mont Blanc pens are of various types and styles. The brand has a limited edition series of pens named after various well-known authors. The signature product however is the Meisterstuck. This Mont Blanc fountain pen resembles a cigar and has been popularly tucked inside the pockets of many pen-fixated people.

A Mont Blanc pen is distinguished by a six-pointed white star on its top portion. This sign represents the slope of the mountain from which the company got its name. Collectors of Mont Blanc pens fondly call this symbol a "snowflake". Also, the "4810" number can be found on the nib of a Montblanc fountain pen. This is the height in meters of the mountain peak namesake. Buy a Mont Blanc fountain pen, and you will find out that it has a serial number as an identification of its authenticity. Mont Blanc fountain pens have become so popular and widely-used that many fake products claiming to be Mont Blancs have taken advantage of the brand’s tremendous success.

Mont Blanc has indeed scaled the peaks of success. After producing, introducing, and spreading its now iconic line of writing instruments to almost countless fanatics of writing pens, it has set its sight and goals to achieving other heights. Its trademark of white star is now stamped in its other lines of luxury products consisting of eyewear, leather goods, jewelry, desk accessories, and even fragrance. Mont Blanc has traveled from the Alps to the rest of Europe to the whole world as it operates in above 70 countries. Its products can be purchased from select authorized boutiques, shops, and jewelers only. As a top of the line manufacturer of exclusive products most notably writing instruments, Mont Blanc is at the peak of tradition of excellence, master craftsmanship, and quality design. And Montblanc fountain pens will not run out of ink in documenting its ascent to yet another peak of success.




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