What ink(s) are you waiting for in the mail?

[Mercian]

Well, after a decade of constantly toying with the idea of buying it, I have finally Succumbed to Temptation, ‘bitten the bullet’, and placed an order for a bottle of ESSRI.

If thou hast not yet heard-tell of it, dear Reader, ‘ESSRI’ is the acronym for Ecclesiastical Stationery Suppliers’ Registrars’ Ink.
It is the ‘permanent’ black ink that is recommended by HMG for the use of official Registrars of Births, Deaths, and Marriages here on Airstrip One.

 

My interest in ESSRI was piqued by the review of it by ‘Sandy1’, whose thread has acquired ‘legendary’ status on FPN.

 

The thread under the review by Visvamitra is far less prolix, and it may indeed tell you eveything that you need to know about the stuff.
 

I have previously had personal cause to use it for various legally-mandated signature purposes for Official reasons and so, as I do now own a fleet of various easily-maintained pens, and have already acquired a flotilla of smaller glass bottles in to which to decant the 110ml of officially-endorsed ‘permanent black’ elixir, I have now Succumbed, and so I now find myself awaiting the delivery of the Inky Goodness.

 

I am expecting it to be a ‘dry’-writing beast, which offers almost no nib-lubrication - but I do own various ‘wet’-writing pens, so am now looking forward to availing myself of the ability to enjoy shading-tastic, water resistant, feather-free writing on almost all types of paper.

 

That said, it is always possible that I will find the stuff to be dry-as-a-bone, and a haptic ‘nightmare’. I guess that I will find this out soon enough, eh?

😁

 

 

[beaker606]

Thanks to @amberleadavis's fantastic informal review, I am waiting for a bottle of Monteverde Wisdom. 

[amberleadavis]

2 hours ago, beaker606 said:

Thanks to @amberleadavis's fantastic informal review, I am waiting for a bottle of Monteverde Wisdom. 

 

I'm glad to have been of help.

 

[inkstainedruth]

On 4/3/2022 at 5:49 PM, Mercian said:

Well, after a decade of constantly toying with the idea of buying it, I have finally Succumbed to Temptation, ‘bitten the bullet’, and placed an order for a bottle of ESSRI.

If thou hast not yet heard-tell of it, dear Reader, ‘ESSRI’ is the acronym for Ecclesiastical Stationery Suppliers’ Registrars’ Ink.
It is the ‘permanent’ black ink that is recommended by HMG for the use of official Registrars of Births, Deaths, and Marriages here on Airstrip One.

 

My interest in ESSRI was piqued by the review of it by ‘Sandy1’, whose thread has acquired ‘legendary’ status on FPN.

 

The thread under the review by Visvamitra is far less prolix, and it may indeed tell you eveything that you need to know about the stuff.
 

I have previously had personal cause to use it for various legally-mandated signature purposes for Official reasons and so, as I do now own a fleet of various easily-maintained pens, and have already acquired a flotilla of smaller glass bottles in to which to decant the 110ml of officially-endorsed ‘permanent black’ elixir, I have now Succumbed, and so I now find myself awaiting the delivery of the Inky Goodness.

 

I am expecting it to be a ‘dry’-writing beast, which offers almost no nib-lubrication - but I do own various ‘wet’-writing pens, so am now looking forward to availing myself of the ability to enjoy shading-tastic, water resistant, feather-free writing on almost all types of paper.

 

That said, it is always possible that I will find the stuff to be dry-as-a-bone, and a haptic ‘nightmare’. I guess that I will find this out soon enough, eh?

😁

 

 

I keep looking at ESSRI, but fear that I won't go through a 110 mil bottle of IG ink fast enough -- even if it was the ONLY ink I'd use for several years  (I've got a 60 ml bottle of Akkerman IJzer-Galnoten that has apparently started to go bad... and I've only had it a couple of years...).  

And at the time I was looking at ESSRI (several years ago at this point), the shipping charges to the US were sufficiently high that I was going to order a pen at the same time to help balance the cost out -- especially since it appeared that it would be a Parker Vector.... 

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[swanjun]

On 4/2/2022 at 9:29 PM, Misfit said:

Very cool choices. Belated happy birthday, and I hope you enjoy that mighty haul. 

 

Thanks!

[Geslina]

Waiting on, from different places:

Diamine Prussian Blue

Diamine Happy Holidays

Diamine Shimmering Seas

Sailor Ink Studio 280 and 243

Platinum Pigmented Black, cartridges

Pilot Iroshizuku Shin Kai

[Just J]

A bottle of Mont Blanc Enzo Ferrari. Probably the only thing I'll ever own with the Mont Blanc name on it. 

 

[Recursion]

To be honest I’m trying not to fall in the inky rabbit hole. According to my wife I have enough to last me 2 lifetime’s 😳

I have to admit the inky temptation is hard to resist. 

[Recursion]

1 hour ago, Geslina said:

Waiting on, from different places:

Diamine Prussian Blue

Diamine Happy Holidays

Diamine Shimmering Seas

Sailor Ink Studio 280 and 243

Platinum Pigmented Black, cartridges

Pilot Iroshizuku Shin Kai

Lovely selection 👍

[dragondazd]

2 hours ago, Geslina said:

Waiting on, from different places:

Diamine Prussian Blue

Diamine Happy Holidays

Diamine Shimmering Seas

Sailor Ink Studio 280 and 243

Platinum Pigmented Black, cartridges

Pilot Iroshizuku Shin Kai

How did you pick between 243 and 143? Soooo many choices

[A Smug Dill]

7 hours ago, Recursion said:

According to my wife I have enough to last me 2 lifetime’s 😳

I have to admit the inky temptation is hard to resist. 

 

If you drown in ink inthis lifetime, that might make three lifetimes', unless you have an astoundingly large lung capacity.

[CXC]

Sailor 223, 680, 730, 770.  Bye-bye, Noodler's.

[Geslina]

20 hours ago, dragondazd said:

How did you pick between 243 and 143? Soooo many choices

Hmmm. I do remember looking at both shades online….however, I ordered a sample of 243 last year and just got around to using it and fell in love.  It’s such a pretty blue.  Not too bright, not too dark, not too light.  The color of soft, faded denim.
 

Though I must say, I also had a sample of 353 and loved it, so I bought a full size bottle - and now can’t understand what I ever saw in it.  I’m thinking these inks perform best in wetter nibs, and definitely not in very fine nibs.  When I tried the 353 sample, I used a Pelikan fine nib, which is on the wet side.  When I got the bottle, I put the ink in a 3776 M, not really a dry nib, but definitely drier and finer than the Pelikan. So I will need to reassess 353 in a wetter, broader nib.

[Geslina]

22 hours ago, Just J said:

A bottle of Mont Blanc Enzo Ferrari. Probably the only thing I'll ever own with the Mont Blanc name on it. 

 

Ha.  Same here.  I work with a doctor who has a Mont Blanc fountain pen he got as a gift when he graduated from med school, which would have been around 1990.  He has said that he will give it to me…if he finds it, he doesn’t know where it is in his house…but I’m not holding my breath.  Likely if he does find it, he will look it up online and see the value and change his mind real fast.

[ItwasLuck]

A bottle of Pelikan 4001 Blue-Black, slowly but surely I'll have tried all the IG Blue-Blacks! 

[inkstainedruth]

Ooooh!  I haven't had any luck finding that in the US, ItwasLuck.  I don't know if the modern version is IG or not.  

I tried ordering it from an eBay vendor in the UK a few years ago but either they weren't allowed to ship to the US or weren't allowed to ship it out of the UK (forget which now) so I just gave up looking.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[ItwasLuck]

28 minutes ago, inkstainedruth said:

Ooooh!  I haven't had any luck finding that in the US, ItwasLuck.  I don't know if the modern version is IG or not.  

I tried ordering it from an eBay vendor in the UK a few years ago but either they weren't allowed to ship to the US or weren't allowed to ship it out of the UK (forget which now) so I just gave up looking.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

I lucked out and found one being sold on Amazon (US) for 25$ shipped, but I had to give it a shot! Considering having to import any of these bottles, the price isn't that bad IMO. 

Also the modern version indeed still contains IG, Pelikan B-B has always had iron gall in it but very small amounts. 

[Carrau]

4 hours ago, inkstainedruth said:

Ooooh!  I haven't had any luck finding that in the US, ItwasLuck.  I don't know if the modern version is IG or not.  

I tried ordering it from an eBay vendor in the UK a few years ago but either they weren't allowed to ship to the US or weren't allowed to ship it out of the UK (forget which now) so I just gave up looking.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

It’s on Amazon today  for $13.28.  I bought my last bottle on Amazon.

[Carrau]

I was waiting for three Birmingham Pens inks, which arrived today.  Two Everlasting inks, Cornflower (a pale blue),  and Compost (a murky geen-brown-gray somewhat resembling Noodler’s Zhivago, or what in SC is called Charleston Green).  The third is non-everlasting, Kyanite. ( a blue-black-?purple, somewhat like Diamine Eclipse, I think).  I expect the Kyanite will probably exhibit some water resistance, as many of BP inks have done in the past.  I’m intrigued that the Cornflower is Everlasting, being such a pale blue.  I don’t think that I’ve come across any light blues that are so water resistant, although there may be.

[ItwasLuck]

55 minutes ago, Carrau said:

It’s on Amazon today  for $13.28.  I bought my last bottle on Amazon.

 

That is the 30ml variant, the one i bought is 62.5ml. Regardless, it comes up to the same price so it's great that we have some bottles available!