Brand Story

Montblanc International GmbH is a German manufacturer of writing instruments, often identified by their famous "White Star" logo.Founded by the stationer Claus-Johannes Voss, the banker Alfred Nehemias and the engineer August Eberstein in 1906, the company began as the Simplo Filler Pen company producing up-market pens in the Schanzen district of Hamburg. Their first model was the Rouge Et Noir in 1909 followed in 1910 by the pen that was later to give the company its new name, the Mont Blanc. The first pen (a fountain pen) known as the MeisterstГјck or Masterpiece (the name used for export) was produced in 1925.

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The Montblanc George Bernard Shaw Limited Edition Writers Series 2018 Ballpoint Pen Writers Edition fountain pen for 2018 pays tribute to George Bernard Shaw, the Nobel Prize winning Irish author. Born in Dublin, Ireland in 1856, Shaw spent most of his adult life in England. He is the only person in history to have been awarded both the Nobel Prize for Literature, in 1925, and an Oscar in 1938. The Oscar was for his work on the film Pygmalion.

George Bernard Shaw wanted to refuse his Nobel Prize, owing to his dislike of public honors. However, at his wife