PBA Galleries

A rare Montblanc No. 2 safety fountain pen, black hard rubber, red captop star. 112mm. No. 2 14K gold Simplo heart-vent nib, slight flex, slight crimp to one tine. Excellent condition, barrel and cap glossy black, captop star bright red, safety mechanism functions smoothly, very light cap marks to section. The barrel, cap and endpiece lack imprints and patent numbers. The section shows light cap marks and has not been polished, and there is no demarcation line between section and barrel as would be expected if the barrel was polished but not the section. It is possible it was circulated without imprints, a very uncommon but not unprecedented happenstance.

-Wallrafen, Stefan & Jens Rösler. Collectible Stars I: Montblanc 1908-1947. [Cologne: 2014], pp. 36-37. Scarcity rating of 11 (on 12-point scale), indicating "up to 10 exist".