Only Online Auction
Hong Kong, Oct 14, 2021
LOT 529
Montblanc, “Writers Edition”, Ref. 38003, made in 2006
“Virginia Woolf”, limited edition, No. 04 048 / 16 000
HKD 3,000 - 4,600
CHF 350 - 550 / EUR 350 - 500 / USD 400 - 600
Sold: HKD 4,000
Fountain-pen with medium 18K gold nib engraved with elm tree motif (dated 2006)
Original fitted box and outer box, “Virginia Woolf” booklet and guarantee (dated August 23, 2006)
Brand Montblanc
Notes
Montblanc, “Virginia Woolf”
Montblanc created this pen in 2006 in honour of Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), in a limited and numbered edition of 16 000 examples. The fifteenth of Montblanc’s “Writers Edition”.
The pen’s elegant design features guilloché (engine-turned) waves in black precious resin, an allusion to Woolf’s 1931 novel, The Waves. The clip is set with a cabochon ruby.
The ball-point-pen was produced in a limited and numbered edition of 18 000 examples.
The mechanical pencil was produced in a limited and numbered edition of … 000 examples.
A set of three writing instruments, comprising a fountain-pen, a ball-point-pen and a mechanical pencil, was produced in a limited and numbered edition of 4 000 examples.
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Woolf, Adeline Virginia
Née Stephen; January 25, 1882 – March 28, 1941
English writer, considered one of the most important modernist 20th century authors and also a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device.
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