My first clue something was wrong came when I tried taking off the cap. It came with a convincing box and set of papers! The appraisal customer told me it was a LeGrand.Ī quick inspection showed it had a serial number in the clip band, Pix written under the clip, perfect cap band nomenclature. I had been told it was a Montblanc rollerball, and it looks very much like a Montblanc Classique.
It came with a collection of vintage pens for appraisal. This is one of the most convincing fake Montblanc fountain pens we have ever seen.Īfter 14 years in the pen business, I have just encountered one the very best fake Montblanc pens I’ve ever seen. How Do I Start Collecting Pens: Fake Montblanc Serial Numbers This entry was posted in How Do I Start Collecting Pens? and tagged #fakeluxurypens, #fakemb, #fakemontblanc, #fakemontblancfaulkner, #fakemontblancs, #fakepens, #faketributetomontblanc, #montblancfaulkner, #tributetomontblanc, fake Mont Blanc, fake montblanc, fake pens, Mont Blanc, Montblanc on Decemby Nathaniel Cerf. With any luck, it helps you avoid the pitfalls of the stunningly large market of counterfeit pens. I hope you’ve enjoyed this latest segment looking into the wonderful world of fake Montblanc pens. Maybe technically it isn’t a fake Montblanc, but in all other ways it tries to look like Mont Blanc. The distant pen has the outline, shape and clip of a Montblanc, but it doesn’t have the logo. The closer pen looks like it could be a pen from the 1970s, but MB never had a model quite like that…and it didn’t fit Montblanc refills. These final pens stretch the boundaries of faking Montblanc. These final two pens are much more egregiously impersonating Mont Blanc. The black tails on two of the pens are another indicator they are fake. Also, not visible in the photo, some of the 6-point mountain top logos/stars are either rubbing off or poorly painted or unevenly inset into the caps. The bottom two pens might not show it in the photo, but their color and finish is far too cheaply made to be a real Montblanc. Real Montblancs would have the black lines above show as the same color as the rest of the cap and/or remain gold. Plus, all of these pens have black bands around the cap bands when the pens are not black. The gold plating doesn’t wear like that on heavily used Montblancs. I don’t know the technical way to say this but the cap wring on the bottom pen is just worn wrong. Yet, with any experience with Montblanc pens and a little help from a search engine online will quickly reveal designs such as these four to be fake. Clever scammers can play on that variety by making their own unique version. One of the things Montblanc does is make special or limited runs of slight alterations to its primary “Classique” design. This second photo of fakes is also interesting. This second selection of false Montblanc pens shows is a little less convincing. The golden one in the back will look convincing to a novice, but on really close inspection the black cap bands were poorly painted on, and the black tail isn’t something an actual MB would have. I actually kinda like the red more than the official versions. However, the modern MB tribute pens were never made in red. The red pen behind it looks just like some of the special edition MB pens that looked like the original safety fillers. Otherwise the serial number, Pix, small details were all identical. Only the real one has the exact same trim in a platinum plate not gold plate. The white pen behind it looks just like a Montblanc Tribute to Montblanc ballpoint. It (the bottom pen) looks very convincing…even better than the real thing, as the real pen’s color is a Spanish moss green-grey, and this knock-off pen is a cinnamon brown. In this first photo is a recreation of the Mont Blanc Writers’ Series William Faulkner. The fascinating thing to me was how some pens were extremely convincing, others were pretty obvious and some invented designs looked better than actual Montblanc pens! It was quite an education that I hope to share here.
This first batch of fake Mont Blanc pens has some really convincing models.