Montblanc Carlo Collodi Special Edition Ink (More Comparisons Added)

[raging.dragon]

I like Toffee Brown. I like the Collodi brown more; however, I'm not going to let myself fall in love with a limited edition ink.

[ethernautrix]

Hmm... the Carlo Collodi that I'm using looks like Pumpkin Pie. I think it would be a perfect match to my Mb Hemingway, but the Hemingway isn't in rotation. I'm using the ink in a Nakaya Desk Pen (M). It's an interesting ink -- I almost don't want to like it, but I can't help myself. Which was my reaction when I opened the box containing the Hemingway. I thought the pen was hideous and thought I would send it back, but the more I looked at it, the more beautiful it became. Weird. I guess this is how Mb orange or pumpkin colors affect me.

[reprieve]

looks like Pumpkin Pie

 

Yum! I can't wait to try this ink!

[SamCapote]

Hmm... the Carlo Collodi that I'm using looks like Pumpkin Pie. I think it would be a perfect match to my Mb Hemingway, but the Hemingway isn't in rotation. I'm using the ink in a Nakaya Desk Pen (M). It's an interesting ink -- I almost don't want to like it, but I can't help myself. Which was my reaction when I opened the box containing the Hemingway. I thought the pen was hideous and thought I would send it back, but the more I looked at it, the more beautiful it became. Weird. I guess this is how Mb orange or pumpkin colors affect me.

 

It does depend on the nib and paper. I was recently showing a range of nibs using this ink on Staples eco Sugar Cane paper scanned here, and it looks NOTHING like it does from my 1927 Parker Duofold Flex on Clairefontaine Triomphe paper. So I went back and wrote on the side of the paper testing the TWSBI nibs, and you can again see it is darker. I tried to use slightly different scanner settings in the version below which you can tell comparing the paper lines to the version in the TWSBI nibs thread above. The in person real pages look somewhere between the above and below images. (Edit: Let me copy the previous version and post it in this thread so you can see them both together here).

 

Then, I wanted to make sure this was not due to a residual ink in the Duofold, so I loaded some Collodi in a Noodler's Flex pen, and also in a vintage Evans 14k Wet Noodle I got from Mauricio at Vintagepen.net which shows all the variations of this ink. I can see how some would see it as Pumpkin, but there is a lot of variation based on paper and pen. I can't quite match it up even with all the Crayola colors here.

 

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Edited October 27, 2011 by SamCapote

[raging.dragon]

So this one probably isn't for me. I'd like it some papers, and hate it on others.

[Scriptorium Pens]

Just got my bottle and had to try it right away. Gorgeous, rich color. I love it! Thanks for the review -- I'd never have known this ink existed otherwise.

[SamCapote]

So this one probably isn't for me. I'd like it some papers, and hate it on others.

 

I'm surprised you would say that, because I think it is more pen/flow dependent in its variation. I like it because it does have a unique shade from any other ink I can think of in this subcategory. I also like using it because MB (& others) are really easy to rinse out with a vintage pen--especially flex.

[raging.dragon]

So this one probably isn't for me. I'd like it some papers, and hate it on others.

 

I'm surprised you would say that, because I think it is more pen/flow dependent in its variation. I like it because it does have a unique shade from any other ink I can think of in this subcategory. I also like using it because MB (& others) are really easy to rinse out with a vintage pen--especially flex.

 

Ok, I misunderstood - I thought the colour varied with paper not pen/flow. I like the darker samples (wetter pens?), but the lighter orangish ones (drier pens?) not so much. So I'd probably like it with some pens and not others.... And most of my pens are fairly wet. So might be doable. And next weeks Toronto Meetup will put me within a short walk of the local MB boutique. So maybe.

 

I've had good experiences with the MB inks I've used (I use Irish Green, Toffee Brown and Lavender Purple), and they're all are on my favourites list. Irish Green especially as I've yet to find another green I like.

[leod]

very different brown color, added this to my list

[jandrese]

I just got some of this lovely, complex, brown/orange/burnt umber/something ink. It was in a used pen I was trying out. Needless to say I got a bottle of the ink, and the pen, the Flying Crane Platinum maki-e 3776. Great pen and a great ink. Good day!

[torstar]

Hmm... the Carlo Collodi that I'm using looks like Pumpkin Pie.

 

 

That best describes what I'm getting from my M-nib WM Edson.

 

Injecting a touch of Aurora Black (.1 of the .6 ml payload) into the mix has made a very nice chestnut.

Edited November 29, 2011 by torstar

[funkypeanut]

It's a lovely chestnut color, and the shading reminds me of the way chestnuts change color when they're roasted. I think that the pen is a little staid for Carlo Collodi, who was all about movement and somewhat dark whimsy, like Lewis Carroll. I always associate him with turquoise because of the fairy. On the other hand, chestnuts remind me of Collodi's home town.

[Bo Bo Olson]

I was on German Ebay,and they charge much more than my B&M.

Collodi was going from € 16.95 but mostly 19.95 or higher and postage.

 

I remember someone saying they were going to make less of the inks than of the pens.

Couldn't be too many on Ebay.

 

So I called my B&M on Friday. They called me today, my ink came in...and for €12.

 

I was at my B&M today, got the Collodi and DA Havana brown.

 

ON MK Papier 95 g.

The DA in a semi-flex F, is an orange/yellow-brown. One could say cigar colored.

 

In another semi-flex F, Collodi was much more red. One could have called it by me Collodi red and it would go.

It shades well.

I will eventually run it though some papers & nibs to see what it likes.

 

In that I'm testing ESSR, I don't have time to test my browns; now.

8 browns and all different...we are living in the 'good old days' of inks.

Edited December 1, 2011 by Bo Bo Olson

[penmanila]

i'm liking the collodi--in a sense, it was for me an ink waiting for the perfect pen, and that pen turned out to be a hemingway (nice visual match as well between pen and ink). i like how it seems to exude an internal glow on the page:

 

 

Edited June 12, 2015 by penmanila