Montegrappa Elmo 01 Frost Balpen

Montegrappa’s Elmo 01 is a reminder of how often the designs we consider classics today were simply necessities of their time. In the early 1920s, rampant demand and scarce materials required pen makers to be inventive, so for Montegrappa’s first Technical Director, it was an opportunity to break from tradition.

The Elmo 01 taps into the maverick spirit of Heinrich ‘Elmo’ Helm. Active until 1928, his bold experiments with shape and colour helped make the Montegrappa pens a mainstay of Italian universities and workplaces. A century later, his stripped-back ideas reflect the essential spirit of Italian every day carry and Montegrappa Vintage Class.

Vintage 1920’s styling, remade for 2020’s writers.

Italian boldness – on a budget.

• Understated, Bauhaus-era presence matched with honest, all-round performance.
• Lathed from superior resin in Italy’s most prestigious pen manufacturer.
• Authentic, old-school charm in fountain pen, rollerball or twist-action ballpoint.

Italy's first pen producer, Montegrappa, began manufacturing pens in 1912 in its factory in Bassano del Grappa in Italy. Utilizing natural celluloid and precious metals,Montegrappa combines traditional methods such as die-casting with more recent innovations as low-relief engraving to form their precious art objects. Whether Montegrappa use colors reminiscent of the master painters or ornamentation suggestive of Baroque palaces, the Italian heritage and romance is infused into each product.