The Ink Association Game

[eviltwin]

Sophisticated: Montblanc Mysterious Black

 

New word: silk

[inkspot]

Silk: Iroshizuku Yama Budo - I once had a silk dress that colour.

 

New word: Eager

[randomthinks]

Noodler's Cactus Fruit Eel. Eager to be seen, it screams off my page.

 

New word: reticent

[amberleadavis]

Noodler's Dark Matter

 

The story of a vintage ink reborn…

A large size “Boston Round” with sharp shoulders (indicative to this vintage ink collector of a possible – though not certain – upper Midwest connection, as the “master” school and business/office bottles made there often had distinctively sharp curves on the shoulders of their “Boston Round” bottles) – arrived at Noodler’s Ink in Massachusetts from a resident of Chicago. The gentleman states he was an employee at “a much older undisclosed location” and is an admirer of our inks. He wants the bottle back, if we would be so kind – but also a bottle of any ink we can make that replicates its contents as payment for providing us with such a marvelous piece of history. We replicated the ink as closely as possible with current, fresh and modern materials…and the return of the bottles met with his approval. We also sent him a pen, of course.

Do we always put such effort into a bottle of vintage ink that randomly appears in the mail box? No. Sometimes, however….when it is rare or unusual, we certainly do – as this bottle had upon it a deceptively simple label: “U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, LA NM BLK WF 43″ The label was incredibly small for such a large bottle of ink. However, knowing master bottles of similar shape and size that had been made by the major ink companies of the era – this was actually not unusual. School system and government office ink bottles also routinely had such small labels. Commercial labels were always much larger (as I have always said, the art of labels is part of the craft and should of course be done with Noodler’s Ink!).

We were given enough information to conclude it was the genuine: the ink of Los Alamos, New Mexico…cir. Mid-1940s, “Project Y”- the Manhattan Project. Better still, it could be successfully rehydrated and replicated.

It has been named “Dark Matter” and has an image of the leading scientist of the Manhattan Project upon the label – with his most famous quote imprinted upon his image. The ink could be distinguished between other inks of the era with a variety of tests – yet it was a very conventional ink and though water resistant, is not completely waterproof (though at the time it would have certainly been classed as being “permanent”). If you wrote a document while sequestered at Los Alamos during “the project”….apparently, you even had to use the right kind of ink when not using a pencil or bit of chalk…

New Word Secretive

[mboschm]

Secretive: Noodler's whiteness of the whale.

 

New word: Canal.

[I.M.]

Canal: Noodler's Burma Road Brown, it's a muddy canal!

 

New word: England

[The Blue Knight]

Canal: Noodler's Burma Road Brown, it's a muddy canal!

 

New word: England

 

Parker Quink Blue. I was educated at a traditional English Public (UK meaning) school and my only experience of fountain pen ink was Quink Blue. I always used to love the fact that I was carrying an England made pen (originally Reflex, then a few Vectors latter on and finally a Jotter). So I heavily associate this ink with my schooling and with England (even though I think only my dad has an English bottle of Quink).

 

 

Keeping a similar Country related topic going

 

New words: American Schooling

[amberleadavis]

Skrip Peacock blue - because you couldn't get away with using red, green or purple if you were a dude, but for some reason, Peacock blue was still a strong masculine color.

 

New Word: Peers

[ravantra]

Peers: Noodler's Blue Ghost cause it Disa-Peers? Yeah bad joke.

 

New Word: Ice

[amberleadavis]

Peers: Noodler's Blue Ghost cause it Disa-Peers? Yeah bad joke.

 

New Word: Ice

Oh, see I would have gone with Prime of the Commons.

 

 

Ice - Whaleman's Sepia because dude they are out their in the ice. Or Whiteness of the Whale.

 

New Word: Fishy

[lightless]

Oh, see I would have gone with Prime of the Commons.

 

 

Ice - Whaleman's Sepia because dude they are out their in the ice. Or Whiteness of the Whale.

 

New Word: Fishy

Cape Cod Cranberry, because, well, cod, I guess.

 

DERRIÈRE

 

Edit: Congratulations to cadfael_tex and all of us on twenty pages!

Edited March 21, 2014 by lightless

[I.M.]

Derrière: has to be something pink as a baby's bottom, so I'm going with... J. Herbin Rose Tendresse

 

New word: brasserie

[randomthinks]

When I first read this, I saw "brassy" instead of "brasserie", so I thought about tarnished brass:

 

Diamine Light Green

 

Then, re-reading as brasserie, I thought of my favorite beer, Blue Moon Belgian White, which is exactly the color of:

 

Edelstein Amber.

 

 

Next word: Moon

[inkspot]

Moon: J. Herbin Poussiere de Lune

 

New word: Dentist

[I.M.]

Dentist (don't remind me, yes, I know I still need to make an appointment... let's think about ink instead!): I'm going to have to go with a pink ink again. I'll never forget as a kid the pink tablets my dentist had me and my brother chewing to show us how poorly we cleaned our teeth. Which pink this time? Noodler's Baystate Cape Cod Cranberry looks like a good match.

 

New word: weekend

Edited March 21, 2014 by I.M.

[amberleadavis]

Weekend: Starry Night / Van Gogh FPN because I would love to see the stars, but my city is too bright.

 

New Word: Party

[I.M.]

Party: Diamine Syrah. Might as well have a little wine flowing!

 

New word: silver birch

[randomthinks]

Diamine grey. Almost silver on the page.

 

Next up: energy

[I.M.]

Energy: Private Reserve Electric DC Blue

 

New word: Nirvana

[Sandy1]

Energy: Private Reserve Electric DC Blue

 

New word: Nirvana

 

Nirvana ~ Pilot kon-peki

 

New word : Stiletto