Some Montblanc WE pens are more sought after than others and that makes them more valuable to collectors. They therefore command high prices. They include at least the Hemingway, Proust and Christie, plus probably the Poe and Wilde, and maybe others that I forgot.
IMHO the Faulkner was never in the "everyone must have it" group, and probably only appealed to collectors who specifically wanted that pen or bought every WE just because that's what they always did. It has never commanded a particularly high price.
I had a Faulkner and had the same choice as you. Shall I ink it and write with it like it's just another pen, or sell it uninked and buy something else that I will write with.
I chose to do the latter purely because it wasn't my favourite WE.
Inking it just to try it out won't particularly affect the value, as it's easy enough to clean out all of the ink within a short period of time. Inking it and writing with it enough to add some wear to the nib will affect the value, but for a Faulkner it won't really make a great difference.
As it is now it's just a pretty stick. Not particularly doing much for what you spent your money on. If you don't want to write with it then why not sell it and buy a 149 instead? If you do want to ink it then go ahead and do it. You will enjoy writing with it.
I love writing with my Woolf and use it very often. I have a Dostoevsky and a Twain that have been inked a couple of times but aren't regular writers. When the time comes for me to sell them to their next owners, they will be sold as inked but cleaned out. I will take whatever I get for them in the knowledge that I owned them for a while and used them if I wanted to. Whatever that ends up costing me will have been worth it. Like a rental for my term of ownership. I no longer think about whether the value is different now or not.
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