Around 360 euros was asked for a Montblanc Schiller from the Writers Edition at the Cologne collectors' meeting in March 2004. Among collectors this sum counted as a good price and by no means an excessive one, and it is a serviceable point of reference for the level at which used pieces of this series were traded at that time.
The sum is to be placed in the market environment of the day: at collectors' meetings the prices of more recent writing instruments were roughly at the level of the online auctions, and genuine bargains remained the exception. Anyone who in 2004 sought a piece of this series below the shop price depended on meetings and fairs, but had to reckon with customary market demands there as well.