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KWX Lux Grey, a 30ml Diamine Ruby and two10ml Herbins, Amber de Bremanie and Bleu Des Profondeurs, first ink purchase since Monaco Red last year.

It's hard work to tell which is Old Harry when everybody's got boots on.

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Massed ordered Diamine from CultPens. In particular, I am looking forward to the guitar series. It is amazing how much diamine ink you get from ordering over seas. I did a quick calculation, and my order would have cost 3 times more if I ordered from the states.

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Well, I've been very good, the last few years, but I just needed to buy myself some new inks for my collection. Just to fill out my new desk a bit.
What would look nicer on my desk than some nice ink bottles, ready for use?
So, I went ahead and visited Akkerman's website.
I ordered myself two beautiful bottles with beautiful inks:

- Diamine inkvent Season's greetings.
- Pelikan Edelstein Aquamarine.

I can't wait for them to arrive. Better flush two pens out, from my rotation, so I can fill two other ones with my new treasure.

Forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much. - Oscar Wilde.

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My goodness, Monteverde must have expanded their Mountains of the World offerings.  I haven't heard of either of these two; my most recent was Mt. Vesusvio.

 

Currently waiting for (due tomorrow I think) another bottle of Krishna Bauhimia.  It has been very hard to find so I am glad to have finally found another bottle, even though I was only allowed to buy one bottle when I wanted to get two.  Backup and all that.........

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5/11/'22: 3 orders: 
Sailor Manyo Yomogi 

Sailor Shikiori Souten (×2)
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Ancient Song The Sea  
Ancient Song South of the Yangtze 
Ancient Song Song of Pilgrimage 
 &
Cross Blue-Black

 

I got 99 problems but a BIC ain't one! 

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Ever notice that all the instruments looking for signs of intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth? 

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If I said I'll fix it, I will. There's no need to remind me every 6 months. 

 

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1 hour ago, Just J said:

5/11/'22: 3 orders: 
Sailor Manyo Yomogi 

Sailor Shikiori Souten (×2)
 &
Ancient Song The Sea  
Ancient Song South of the Yangtze 
Ancient Song Song of Pilgrimage 
 &
Cross Blue-Black

 

I am unfamiliar with Ancient Song inks.  I will have to look them up!

Festina lente

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence

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36 minutes ago, essayfaire said:

unfamiliar with Ancient Song inks.

I went looking for one which sight of nearly took my breath away -- Winter October. But seems that's the one everybody else has wanted too - can't find it anywhere. So of course, i wound up buying everything else in stock. Guess I showed them!  

*harumph!* 

 

Seriously tho, you can likely see them best at Van Ness Pens, under the name [for some unknown reason] 'Ancient Charm'. 

If you find any of that October, let me know! 

Got me jonesing! 

 

I got 99 problems but a BIC ain't one! 

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Ever notice that all the instruments looking for signs of intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth? 

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If I said I'll fix it, I will. There's no need to remind me every 6 months. 

 

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33 minutes ago, Just J said:

I went looking for one which sight of nearly took my breath away -- Winter October. But seems that's the one everybody else has wanted too - can't find it anywhere. So of course, i wound up buying everything else in stock. Guess I showed them!  

*harumph!* 

 

Seriously tho, you can likely see them best at Van Ness Pens, under the name [for some unknown reason] 'Ancient Charm'. 

If you find any of that October, let me know! 

Got me jonesing! 

 

I found you some:  

 

https://deskbandit.com/search?type=product&q=*october*

Festina lente

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence

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3 hours ago, essayfaire said:

I found you some:  

 

O yea! I had found that one too...but $50 to send a tiny li'l $6 bottle of ink seems a bit spendy. Made me think they're so proud of it they wanta keep it, so I let 'em!   

 

But....now that you've peeked, what did you think of the Ancient Song line?  

 

 

4 hours ago, essayfaire said:

unfamiliar with Ancient Song inks.

I went looking for one which sight of nearly took my breath away -- Winter October. But seems that's the one everybody else has wanted too - can't find it anywhere. So of course, i wound up buying everything else in stock. Guess I showed them!  

*harumph!* 

 

I got 99 problems but a BIC ain't one! 

              ~◇◇◇◇~

Ever notice that all the instruments looking for signs of intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth? 

                ~◇◇◇◇~

If I said I'll fix it, I will. There's no need to remind me every 6 months. 

 

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21 minutes ago, Just J said:

what did you think of the Ancient Song line?  

Very intriguing!  I would love to see someone compare them to the Vinta inks, which I only discovered this year and am quite fond of!

 

And of course, I  have a few relatively inexpensive pens that were bought to justify spending the money to get the ink I wanted as shipping can be expensive relative to a single bottle of ink. ;) 

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apparently Edelstein Apatite.. I was just informed that I won the Pelikan Passion birthday raffle,  :)

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Oh dear. They got me again...

 

The new Diamine summer colours:

 

Cult Pens Summer Fountain Pen Ink by Diamine 30ml

 

and the new flower colours:
 

Cult Pens Exclusive Flower Inks by Diamine

 

not to mention a couple of other birthday specials from Cult Pens (whose birthday conveniently falls just before mine...)

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7 minutes ago, mizgeorge said:

Oh dear. They got me again...

 

They almost got me… but then, after a bit of to-and-fro, I found out that there isn't actually a 20%-off to be applied at checkout on the listed prices for Colorverse ink.

I endeavour to be frank and truthful in what I write, show or otherwise present, when I relate my first-hand experiences that are not independently verifiable; and link to third-party content where I can, when I make a claim or refute a statement of fact in a thread. If there is something you can verify for yourself, I entreat you to do so, and judge for yourself what is right, correct, and valid. I may be wrong, and my position or say-so is no more authoritative and carries no more weight than anyone else's here.

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6 minutes ago, A Smug Dill said:

 

They almost got me… but then, after a bit of to-and-fro, I found out that there isn't actually a 20%-off to be applied at checkout on the listed prices for Colorverse ink.

The 20%  is apparently applied before checkout - I picked up a couple more of the project series while I was there and they were way less expensive than any other UK retailer - by over 60% even allowing for the any discount I can get with alternative suppliers. 

 

I did manage to stop myself from buying too many more pens though...

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7 minutes ago, mizgeorge said:

The 20%  is apparently applied before checkout

 

Yes, I was subsequently told, after my initial enquiry was met with, ”Oh, I think that offer has already expired, but if you place an order I can apply a 20% discount on the Colorverse inks for you.” I was just about to step out to go to dinner, so I replied thanks, I'll look at it in a few hours, but also pointed out it was in yesterday's issue of the Penorama newsletter. By the time I got back, the customer service representative admitted her mistake in what was going on with the 20%-off thing, and implicitly rescinded the offer to manually apply a 20% discount on the items in my order. I didn't push, since I'd really be doing it only for the hell of it anyway, if I have to put together an order exceeding £105 after all the discounting.

I endeavour to be frank and truthful in what I write, show or otherwise present, when I relate my first-hand experiences that are not independently verifiable; and link to third-party content where I can, when I make a claim or refute a statement of fact in a thread. If there is something you can verify for yourself, I entreat you to do so, and judge for yourself what is right, correct, and valid. I may be wrong, and my position or say-so is no more authoritative and carries no more weight than anyone else's here.

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12 hours ago, MHBru said:

apparently Edelstein Apatite.. I was just informed that I won the Pelikan Passion birthday raffle,  :)

Good for you!  Winning things is always fun.  

Of course now I'm going to have to go look Edelstein Apatite up and see if it's a color I like/want (about half the Edelstein "Ink of the Year" colors I have duplicate bottles of, but the other half I can't stand...).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

"It's very nice, but frankly, when I signed that list for a P-51, what I had in mind was a fountain pen."

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6 hours ago, mizgeorge said:

Oh dear. They got me again...

 

The new Diamine summer colours:

 

Cult Pens Summer Fountain Pen Ink by Diamine 30ml

 

and the new flower colours:
 

Cult Pens Exclusive Flower Inks by Diamine

 

not to mention a couple of other birthday specials from Cult Pens (whose birthday conveniently falls just before mine...)

Interesting.  I hadn't heard about these before just now.  Are they sets, or are they available individually (the way the original Flower Collection inks later were).  

I can see myself using "A Dip in the Pool" and maybe "Grey Skies No More" from the Summer line -- and for the new Flower Collection "Snapdragon" for sure and (depending on how pale they are on the page) possibly also  "Forget Me Not" and "Sweet Pea".  But the others?  Not so much....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

"It's very nice, but frankly, when I signed that list for a P-51, what I had in mind was a fountain pen."

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6 minutes ago, inkstainedruth said:

Interesting.  I hadn't heard about these before just now.  Are they sets, or are they available individually (the way the original Flower Collection inks later were).  

I can see myself using "A Dip in the Pool" and maybe "Grey Skies No More" from the Summer line -- and for the new Flower Collection "Snapdragon" for sure and (depending on how pale they are on the page) possibly also  "Forget Me Not" and "Sweet Pea".  But the others?  Not so much....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

The summer ones can be bought individually (in 30 or 80ml bottles) or as a set of 12ml along with a curated set of other popular diamine inks, which would be a nice way to try them out for anyone that didn't already have too many of them ;)

 

https://www.cultpens.com/i/q/DM97247/cult-pens-summer-and-diamine-classic-inks-12ml-set-of-16

 

I've only seen the summer ones as a set so far, but I would imagine they'll become available singly (as the originals now are) before too long. 

 

https://www.cultpens.com/i/q/CU97246/cult-pens-exclusive-flower-inks-by-diamine

 

I'm afraid there were one or two other specials that fell into my basket as well...

 

I'll swatch them when the arrive (probably next week now as I think they've shipped parcel post, which doesn't usually deliver on Saturdays). 

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