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The old one is Bordeaux. (I went and looked at my old round bottle and it does not have a color written on it, but the new one at the MB website is Burgundy Red).

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Based on some reviews here I had bought two bottles of that ink half a year ago. But they are still unopened in the drawer. I guess I should open them to see for myself what we are loosing here...

Or wait a couple of months and sell it at a major profit.

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The old one is Bordeaux. (I went and looked at my old round bottle and it does not have a color written on it, but the new one at the MB website is Burgundy Red).

oh good! Out of curiosity though, is the newer burgundy very different in color than the bordeaux?

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I don't know, but somebody around here does.

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oh good! Out of curiosity though, is the newer burgundy very different in color than the bordeaux?

No. Try this on for size. IMO, the Bordeaux is a tick darker and half a tick bluer but YMMV. BTW I find that just fine because -- at least for me -- that's the general difference in the colours of the actual wines themselves.

 

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Thanks lapis, but it's not that I want one or the other, it's more that I would like to figure out which of the two I have, since the bottle isn't labeled.

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@Harly - if it were the new bottle, you'd know because the name is written on the bottle and the bottle is more rectangularly shaped.

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Ok, cool. That's what I thought you meant. this bottle doesn't have any type of color name, just the various words for ink (like, 5 dif languages?).

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Yep.

Fountain pens are my preferred COLOR DELIVERY SYSTEM (in part because crayons melt in Las Vegas).

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Just to reassure you: their old boxes and the new boxes both have the name of the ink on them.

The new bottles ditto (name of ink in English on top, in French on the bottom, and on the bottom 'Made in Austria').

The old bottles have absolutely no ink name on them, anywhere.

 

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Yeah, I don't have/didn't get the box, so I wouldn't know what name was on it. Does anyone know if any of the new Burgundy color came in the old style bottles, or the old Bordeaux ever came in the newer bottles? I would imagine there simply had to be some type of crossover, if only b/c of the remaining stock levels when the changes occurred, both in ink and bottles.

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Hmm, hopefully the reformulation doesn't change the color too much.

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@Harly - to my recollection - no crossover.

Fountain pens are my preferred COLOR DELIVERY SYSTEM (in part because crayons melt in Las Vegas).

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The answer from Montblanc is, they won't discontinue Lavender Purple. They only had some trouble with one or two batches formerly.

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Hmm, maybe I didn't just imagine that my MB Royal Blue was having issues with useability, if they are pulling other lines.

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During my lunch time I popped in again to see if the Lavender bottles were still in the Liverpool Street station shop and they are gone.

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So, for those of us who just love purple.

 

MB Violet (old bottle) compared to MB Lavender Purple.

 

http://sheismylawyer.com/INK/attachments/MB_Purple1.png

Fountain pens are my preferred COLOR DELIVERY SYSTEM (in part because crayons melt in Las Vegas).

Create a Ghostly Avatar and I'll send you a letter. Check out some Ink comparisons: The Great PPS Comparison 

Don't know where to start?  Look at the Inky Topics O'day.  Then, see inks sorted by color: Blue Purple Brown Red Green Dark Green Orange Black Pinks Yellows Blue-Blacks Grey/Gray UVInks Turquoise/Teal MURKY

 

 

 

 

 

 

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While the inks definitely look different when in "larger doses", they are more similar when presented more sparingly. So I suspect in wetter writers the inks will appear the most different.

 

http://sheismylawyer.com/INK/attachments/MB_Purple2.png

 

 

http://sheismylawyer.com/INK/attachments/MB_Purple3.png

Fountain pens are my preferred COLOR DELIVERY SYSTEM (in part because crayons melt in Las Vegas).

Create a Ghostly Avatar and I'll send you a letter. Check out some Ink comparisons: The Great PPS Comparison 

Don't know where to start?  Look at the Inky Topics O'day.  Then, see inks sorted by color: Blue Purple Brown Red Green Dark Green Orange Black Pinks Yellows Blue-Blacks Grey/Gray UVInks Turquoise/Teal MURKY

 

 

 

 

 

 

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