Montblanc Alfred Hitchcock

[Skeet]

Meghan, thank you for putting up those swabs. It's very helpful to see some side-by-side comparisons. You're right, it does look very, very close to Tiananmen.

 

My feelings also. Nice review.

[Jagdeep]

Agghhggghh ! Still nothing in Singapore....

[Lalique]

I picked up some Alfred Hitchcock ink today and couldn't wait to try it out. I'm sorry my review isn't filled with overly knowledgeable terms like "lubricity" and "hue" but hopefully this will allow you to decide if you want to grab some Hitchcock before it's gone.

 

A huge thanks (and apology) to Signum1, from whom I very blatantly ripped off the format of this review. (Imitation is the best form of flattery?)

 

Sorry for the poor handwriting.

 

 

Aloha, meghan:

 

You have produced an excellent ink review as well as a wonderful learning experience about how to do one. Thank you for your great effort! I love your impressive Montblanc snow cap avatar too! It's beautiful!

Edited January 27, 2012 by Lalique

[Jagdeep]

GOT MY ALFRED HITCHCOCK INK TODAY.......

[sarahfar]

I have a bottle and want to get at least one more. It's a great color. Yep it's similar to the old bordeaux and has some of the same quality, especially on ivory paper, will absolutely blow you away with that incredible vintage thing. But there to me seems a subtle difference. First it does appear more saturated. Second, to my recollection, I guess I'll have to mess with the old color, I think I have some, it's has an interesting blood style rusty coppery brown thing, like drying blood going on, no doubt as homage to Alfred. I like it lot as a more deep ink but some of the same intensity thing as the MG Orange which was a great LE too. It's worth stock piling a couple of bottles too.

 

Oh and as to J Herbin 1670, I think it's a dissimilar color. The J Herbin is a beautiful red, true red, without the vibrance or neon quality of lot bright reds. This as an interesting glow in the bottle like the old M product they put on us old people when we kids, but on paper something interesting happens, it seems to turn more deeply burgundy like dried blood and all that goes really nice saturated and has a deep almost sheen that mirrors the deep burgundy. It has some elements of the unique sheen quality of dare I say a famous blue only blood red. I love the ink, absolutely floored, but at first blush, I think it could be a very special ink.

 

All the best

[jwar2003]

I picked up some Alfred Hitchcock ink today and couldn't wait to try it out. I'm sorry my review isn't filled with overly knowledgeable terms like "lubricity" and "hue" but hopefully this will allow you to decide if you want to grab some Hitchcock before it's gone.

 

A huge thanks (and apology) to Signum1, from whom I very blatantly ripped off the format of this review. (Imitation is the best form of flattery?)

 

Sorry for the poor handwriting.

 

 

Hi

 

 

I stumbled across this ink today, whilst picking up a converter for my LAMY Dialog 3, I was thinking about the Diamine Oxblood, but I have opted to go for this ink, I wanted something a little different for this new pen of mine at it is also a little different in appearance (To say the least)

 

I must say I do love this colour, and wished the bottle was bigger

 

I have four pens with four colours in them, Imperial Purple from Diamine, Quink blue black, Quink black and now Hitchcock (I have two nice pens) the other two have quink in them

[seanruss]

That is a nice looking ink, and the name has a lot of character. Will put it in my inks to be considered, upon my next purchase.

Thanks for the review!

 

Sean R.

[jwar2003]

I picked up some Alfred Hitchcock ink today and couldn't wait to try it out. I'm sorry my review isn't filled with overly knowledgeable terms like "lubricity" and "hue" but hopefully this will allow you to decide if you want to grab some Hitchcock before it's gone.

 

A huge thanks (and apology) to Signum1, from whom I very blatantly ripped off the format of this review. (Imitation is the best form of flattery?)

 

Sorry for the poor handwriting.

 

 

Hi

 

 

I stumbled across this ink today, whilst picking up a converter for my LAMY Dialog 3, I was thinking about the Diamine Oxblood, but I have opted to go for this ink, I wanted something a little different for this new pen of mine at it is also a little different in appearance (To say the least)

 

I must say I do love this colour, and wished the bottle was bigger

 

I have four pens with four colours in them, Imperial Purple from Diamine, Quink blue black, Quink black and now Hitchcock (I have two nice pens) the other two have quink in them

 

 

 

Edited February 27, 2012 by jwar2003

[Chrissy]

This looks quite similar to the old Mont Blanc Bordeaux. Not sure if you're au fait with that ink?

You're the second person who's said that, which leads me to believe the sample I've used of Bordeaux must not have been Bordeaux. What I used was far more purple than AH.

 

 

That was my assumption also when I asked in the MB forum...the "old" Bordeaux is not the same as the MB Burgundy. It (Bordeaux) truly is very similiar to this new Hitchcock color. That's why I was asking if MB maybe have just used the same formula and "renamed" the ink..

 

There was a thread here (or maybe in the MB forum) a few months back about MB "rebranding" the Gandhi Saffron ink and re-releasing it...so we wouldn't have to pay $75 a bottle (the going rate on Ebay!) :ninja:

In any case, this is a cool color and thanks for the review!

 

Rick

Hi Rick

The Mahatma Gandhi ink has been re-released within the UK. My local boutique had several bottles

[saskia_madding]

Really? Wow! I would love to see some samples or comparisons wih the old ghandi ink!

[Justanotherpen]

Here is my Review in german:

 

Hersteller:

Montblanc - Made in Austria

Gebinde:

Gläschen mit 35ml

Preis auf 100ml:

Hier muss man den Preis, den ich damals im Laden gezahlt habe und den aktuellen Marktpreis der Editionstinte unterscheiden: Im Handel war das Gläschen für 15€ zu bekommen, aktuell muss man aber bei den Auktionshäusern im Netz um die 40€ auf den Tisch legen. Der Preis pro 100 ml liegt also irgendwo zwischen  42€ und 114€!!

Geschichte hinter der Tinte:

Die Tinte kam mit dem Füllersondermodell aus der Writers Edition im letzten Jahr auf den Markt. Mich erinnert der Farbton an ein Blutrot. Mir gefällt die Farbe sehr gut, denn das Rot wirkt satt und kräftig und dunkel auf dem Papier. Die Tinte trägt auch bei Füllern mit einen feinen Feder gut und deckend auf. Auch auf saugendem Papier deckt die Farbe gut. Der Farbton an sich erinnert mich an die Season Greeting Tinte, nur ist etwas heller und natürlich duftet die Hitchcock nicht. Spannend wäre es vielleicht schon, wenn die Tinte auch ein wenig metallisch -wie echtes Blut- eben riechen würde

 

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Testfüller:

Lamy Al-star B-Feder

Vergleichsfarbe:

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Mein Fazit:

Die Tinte ist ein schönes und sattes rot, dass sich sicherlich gut für jede Art von Briefen, die eine gewisse Emotion ausdrücken sollen, eignet. Besonders mag ich an der Tinte die Schattierungen, die sie auf dem Papier abgibt. Das Rot hat einen leicht blauen Einschlag, wie das ja auch bei echtem Blut ist. Die Tinte zeigt die bekannt guten Eigenschaften der MB Tinten und schreibt auf allen Papierqualitäten gut. Sie dringt tief ins Papier ein und neigt deshalb auch zum durchdrücken.

 

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[Korybas]

Very nice review, I like the ink so I will run at the MB Boutique on Monday and get a bottle.

Thank you for drawing my attention to this ink. Could you inform me as of the price?