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A Montblanc fountain pen that once belonged to Singapore’s founding prime minister Lee Kuan Yew has sold for S$461,500 (US$361,350) at auction, after attracting 111 bids.<\/p>\n
The pen, a sterling silver Montblanc <\/span>Meisterstuck No. 146 with gold-tone highlights and an 18K gold nib, sold at Hotlotz’s Interiors & Collectibles – August, Fine Art Focus auction, which ran from Aug 4 to 16.\u00a0<\/p>\n The final price includes the buyer’s premium, while its hammer price, which refers to the final bid accepted by the auctioneer, was S$355,000. The pen had carried a pre-sale estimate of S$30,000 to S$50,000.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n A Montblanc fountain pen that once belonged to Singapore’s founding prime minister Lee Kuan Yew has sold for S$461,500 (US$361,350) at auction, after attracting 111…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":77139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dam.mediacorp.sg\/image\/upload\/s--UAYdlQcL--\/c_fill,g_auto,h_676,w_1200\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1\/mediacorp\/cna\/image\/2026\/08\/06\/lot_51_a_montblanc_meisterstuck_no._146_fountain_pen_belonging_to_lee_kuan_yew_3.jpg?itok=EXkJny5x","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[10066,16563,12025,28384,1063,1213,27776,25725,576,28386,5722,28385],"class_list":["post-77138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","tag-auction","tag-bids","tag-founding","tag-kuan","tag-lee","tag-minister","tag-montblanc","tag-pen","tag-prime","tag-s461500","tag-sold","tag-yews","wpcat-2-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/77139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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