Snowcaps

I love my snowcaps, in landscape photos and pens. I have been using Montblanc pens for a long time, about three decades now. Slowly the numbers have piled up. The newest pens have a sharper, more stylized white six-pointed star with rounded edges, representing the snow-covered peak of Mont Blanc, the highest mountain in the Alps. The shape is intended to depict the mountain viewed from above. The vintage pens, of which I own many, don’t have as sharp a star, perhaps an homage to more snow cover on the peak. The logo first appeared in 1913. The number “4810” is often engraved on Montblanc nibs. For me, nothing quite like the vintage pens, and nibs. The flex, the soft nibs, and the delicate and delicious feeling they bring to my writing. May 20, 2026