Montegrappa
| Montegrappa
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| legal form | Spa |
| founding | 1912 |
| Seat | Bassano del Grappa |
| Branch | Stationery, jewelry |
| Website | montegrappa.com |
Montegrappa is an Italian writing instrument manufacturer that also sells jewelry such as watches and cufflinks . The manufacturer is known for its high-priced pens.
history
Montegrappa is considered the oldest writing instrument manufacturer in Italy. The company was founded in Bassano del Grappa in 1912 by the Austrian entrepreneurs Edwige Hoffman and Heidrich Helm. The city lies at the foot of the Monte Grappa mountain after which the manufacturer was named. During the First World War , the units of the Italian armed forces were equipped with fountain pens from the Montegrappa brand Elmo . This order made the manufacturer a mass producer of writing implements. It is said that the writers Ernest Hemingway and John Dos Passos used these pens to record their observations about the war. Hemingway is said to have written the reports of the wounded for the novel A Farewell to Arms (Eng. " In another country ") with an Elmo pen. This is very possible because both writers served as volunteers in the war and the Elmo fountain pen was a widely used mass product. In retrospect, however, it is hardly possible to prove which documents were actually written by the writers mentioned with pens from this manufacturer.
Nowadays the manufacturer only produces in the high price segment. The brand was owned by the Swiss group Richemont until 2009 . Until then, a large part of the writing instruments were produced by Montblanc in Hamburg .
literature
- Giuseppe Fichera: Montegrappa 1912. Bolis, Bergamo 1999, ISBN 88-7827-097-0 .
- The privilege of a lifetime. 1912 Montegrappa. Montegrappa, Bassano del Grappa, Italy, OCLC 41524034 .
- Holger Schwarz: Noble feathers write profit in: Die Zeit from December 16, 1999.
- Noble nibs - those in power love Montegrappa fountain pens. in: Wirtschaftswoche. 43, Frankfurt a. M. 2008, ISSN 0042-8582 .
Web links
- Official representation site of the manufacturer (English)
- Montegrappa Northern Europe GmbH , sales organization in Stilwerk Hamburg for Germany, Austria, Luxembourg, the Baltic republics and Scandinavia