Montblanc Limited Writer’s Edition 2011: the Collodi

14 Sep 2011, Posted by Cape Town Girl in guys stuff, shopping, 0 Comments

Carlo Collodi penned one of the most famous stories of all time – Pinocchio. Montblanc release a Writer’s Edition every year and other edition have included Voltaire, Dickens and Proust, and Collodi is this year’s featured storyteller… Nice to have around in a pocket when one gets mobbed for autographs at YDE, what do you think? Interesting fact about Collodi – he died before Pinoccho became the chart-topping kid’s story it would eventually become. Him and Stieg Larsson are high-fiving somewhere.

I like the fact that the pens are hand-crafted and that the tools used to create them are destroyed at the end of the manufacturing process, so there really is no chance of anyone else getting hold of one once they’re all sold. You can get hold of one of these through a Montblanc boutique near you, while stocks last.

“Every detail of the limited edition is carefully designed to reflect Collodi’s epic masterpiece. The primary material is a dark-brown precious resin, the book’s colourful characters including the voracious whale, the loyal cricket, the shady fox, the deceitful cat and the good fairy are featured on the skeletonised cap overlay. A screw set into the clip symbolises the joints of the famous marionette, while the cone is reminiscent of Pinocchio’s legendary growing nose. The limitation number and Collodi’s signature adorn the top of the cap, while the cricket on the 18K champagnegold nib completes this edition of most precious fountain pens.”