Montblanc Limited Edition “Romancing Hearts” Skeleton pen is a tribute to Love and in commemoration to the Valentine’s Day – a holiday when lovers express their affection with greetings and gifts.
Valentine’s Day, also called Saint Valentine’s Day or the Feast of Saint Valentine, is celebrated annually on February 14. It originated as a Christian feast day honoring one or two early Christian martyrs named Saint Valentine and, through later folk traditions, has become a significant cultural, religious, and commercial celebration of romance and love in many regions of the world.
Valentine’s Day
Given their similarities, it has been suggested that the holiday has origins in the Roman festival of Lupercalia, held in mid-February. At the end of the 5th century, Pope Gelasius I forbid the celebration of Lupercalia and is sometimes attributed with replacing it with St. Valentine’s Day, but the true origin of the holiday is vague at best. Valentine’s Day did not come to be celebrated as a day of romance until about the 14th century.
Although there were several Christian martyrs named Valentine, the day may have taken its name from a priest who was martyred about 270 CE by the emperor Claudius II Gothicus. According to legend, the priest signed a letter “from your Valentine” to his jailer’s daughter, whom he had befriended and, by some accounts, healed from blindness. Other accounts hold that it was St. Valentine of Terni, a bishop, for whom the holiday was named, though it is possible the two saints were actually one person. Another common legend states that St. Valentine defied the emperor’s orders and secretly married couples to spare the husbands from war. It is for this reason that his feast day is associated with love.
Limited Edition 14
As the symbol of love, the cap and barrel of the Limited Edition Fountain Pen are decorated with a heart-shaped skeletonised platinum coated Au750 white gold overlay. The hearts on the barrel and cap are set in pink sapphires (in individually cut, 3ct) and framed with 173 diamonds in brilliant cut (2.31ct).
A total of 14 pieces were made, referring to February 14, St. Valentine’s Day.
Launch 2008
Limitation:
Fountain Pens 14
