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MONTBLANC: No. 7 Giant Black Hard Rubber Safety Fountain Pen, c.1920s

16 June 2015, 10:00 PDT
San Francisco

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MONTBLANC: No. 7 Giant Black Hard Rubber Safety Fountain Pen, c.1920s

Huge No. 7 black hard rubber safety pen, "Simplo" imprint on barrel, large 14K gold #7 medium nib, heart vent, nice flexibility. 140mm. Excellent condition, glossy and lustrous, imprints clear and legible with just very slight rubs, safety mechanism works smoothly, cork seal is tight. A beauty. Lambrou describes this pen as "rare" in Fountain Pens of the World.

Jens Rösler comments:
"This pen was found by my father Jürgen Rösler in a pen shop liquidation in Hamburg in the sixties. The condition is unbelievable."

Provenance: From the Jens Rösler Montblanc Collection.

-Wallrafen, Stefan & Jens Rösler. Collectible Stars I: Montblanc 1908-1947. [Cologne: 2014], pp. 50-51. The present lot is the actual example pictured in the book.
-Rösler, Jens. Montblanc Diary and Collector's Guide. [Hamburg: 1992], p. 28.
-Lambrou, Andreas. Fountain Pens of the World. [Westchester: 2005], pp. 256-257.

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