What is your favorite Celluloid color?

[marklavar]

Celluloid pens are my favorites. They combine light weight with a mesmerizing material that is not only sturdy and smells beautifully of camphor but also produces the most spectacular colors of all available "plastics." I honestly have never seen a resin reach the beauty of true celluloid.

I own a bunch of Italian celluloid pens. My favorites are the Omas Arco design and the Montegrappa Extra 1930 turtle brown. Both are incredibly rich. I especially enjoy the Arco because every time I look at the pen, I discover a new detail. It really looks like wood grain and yet is much more interesting than wood could be. Especially when light hits the pen, it is reflected in sparkly glints. When looking at the Arco sideways, you'll discover in the ballpark of 40 sheets of laminated celluoid. Thus the process of making the material becomes evident. I love this! The Montegrappa has the most beautiful brown tones that I have ever seen mixed into one design, especially the way they are "welded" together lengthwise.

 

So, what are your favorite celluloid colors and why? (Remember: I am only asking for the celluloid made of nitrocellulose, no acrylics or resins.)

 

The Omas Arco Brown is my favourite. It's a simply stunning colour, no other reason. The marbled blue is nice as well, but the Arco has a special warmth and a colour effect that is quite mesmerizing.

 

[gylyf]

I have to go with:

 

1. Tibaldi Impero

2. Delta Moresi

3. OMAS Saffron Blue

4. Stipula Ocean Blue/d'Inverno

 

Best,

David

[Freeloader]

The Omas Arco Brown is my favourite. It's a simply stunning colour, no other reason. The marbled blue is nice as well, but the Arco has a special warmth and a colour effect that is quite mesmerizing.

Couldn't agree more!

[plipule]

I have seen the Montegrappa bamboo black and it is the most gorgeous pen - unspeakable lust took over! The green is actually very rich and with the same velvety quality as the Montegrappa celluloid always has. I saw it at Harrods and had actually spoken the fatal words 'I'll take that one' when it occurred to me to ask the price and it was sadly beyond my self imposed limit. :bonk: :bonk:

 

I do have a dark blue Montegrappa Miya Argento and the celluloid on that is just like crumpled thick navy velvet - and with sparkles too!

 

I still want the bamboo but it is sadly beyond my means ... and I can't think of a good enough excuse ...

[georges zaslavsky]

brown, green, white, blue and red. Those colors are legendar and very eye pleasing.

[Dave Johannsen]

if I must choose a favorite color it would be the deep, rich moss green celluloid of the Stipula "Nettuno 'Idra,'" "Nettuno 'Superba,'" and the recent Giardino Italiano 10th Anniversary LE's.

 

I agree whole-heartedly. I've got one fo the Nettuno Superba pens, and the depth and richness of the color is some of the most beautiful that I have seen. If you like earth tones (in particular, greens and browns), then you really should take a close look at one of the pens made in this material. Now, if only I could find an Idra that I could afford...

 

 

Dave