A "CATHERINE THE GREAT" FOUNTAIN PEN, BY MONTBLANC

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A "CATHERINE THE GREAT" FOUNTAIN PEN, BY MONTBLANC
The red resin pen with openwork 18k pink gold filigree and wreaths of flowers, the cap enhanced by circular-cut rubies, with a gold nib engraved with the Russian double-headed eagle motif, 1997, 14.5 cm., with Swiss assay marks, in its original Montblanc fitted case
Signed Montblanc, no. 801/888

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This lot is offered without reserve.

拍品专文

This pen was created in 1997 to celebrate Catherine the Great. Her affairs were legendary but her reading habits testify to her philosophical curiosity and literary taste. At the age of 34, she proclaimed herself the new Tsarina and remained in power for over thirty years.