"Precious resin"

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Those who follow the commercial pen makers know that MontBlanc has been using this phrase for some time. As a pen maker, I would avoid using it, for fear it might violate copyright laws.

Well, this morning Dawn was reading an ad for a new Visconti product, aloud to me. It is an interesting pen, with 12 colors, but it features Visconti's "precious resin"!

If this does NOT start a court battle, then you all should be perfectly safe in describing YOUR pens as having "precious resin" if you choose.

Just an FYI for those who might be cautious with your written advertisements!!

Ed
 
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Precious Resin is a sort of mistranslation. It's been mentioned before over at FPN.

http://www.fountainpennetwork.com/f...ecious-resin/page__view__findpost__p__2419758
Montblanc is a German company and if you want to understand them, you should take a look at the German language and its history.

"Precious resin" is nothing more than a bad translation of the German name for the material "Edelharz", with "edel" meaning "precious" and "harz" meaning "resin" if translated very literally with a dictionary. The same term "Edelharz" is used in German language by Faber-Castell (E-motion) and many other manufacturers.
It's a very old, traditional term and has been in use since the end of the 19th century for a variety of materials (e.g. Galalith - lookup wikipedia) to show the difference to celluloid and bakelite, which also had some colorful merchandising names back then.

Montblanc has just picked up that "romantic" old German term and translated its syllables to English words.
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