The Meisterstück 144 in burgundy is a long-discontinued colour variant of the small piston filler, but as a regular production model it was built in large numbers and is not therefore considered rare. In any case the collector value of an older Montblanc arises less from its age than from rarity, condition and completeness: the original case, the guarantee booklet and the receipt often weigh more heavily than the colour variant itself. Use can depress the price noticeably above all with unused, fully boxed pens, because a section of collectors looks for nothing else.
An example that has already seen ink need not, then, be spared. Anyone who wants to use writing instruments rather than invest in them simply reaches for whichever pen writes better; Meisterstück pens of the 1980s and 1990s are in no way behind current models in everyday use, and either can be overhauled by the factory service if need be. The sentimental value of a pen — the first Montblanc of one's own, an inheritance — is untouched by all this, and for the owner usually counts for more than any market price.