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| | penspotters :: Montblanc pens |
 | | Tellingly, an apparently-official Montblanc FAQ list that I once saw spent a great deal of bandwidth on the topic of their instruments leaking, skipping, clogging, and jamming (and why these problems are probably your fault), as well as explaining why the uses to which you might want to put them (such as calligraphy) aren't suitable. |
 | | Historywise, Montblanc is one of the few survivors (along with Pelikan and Lamy) of the large and diverse German fountain pen industry, which was laid waste by two world wars with fifteen or so years of profound economic depredation in between. |
 | | Montblanc was a German company, selling primarily to Germans, among whom were lots of Nazi Party members; furthermore, it is certainly possible that they made pens to order with Nazi iconography as gifts or for formal presentations. |
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