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A few days ago I saw Blue Upon the Plains of Abraham offered for sale here in the US (AFAIK, previously only available in Canada).  I remembered an essentially positive review on FPN from Vis, so I ordered a bottle that arrived today.  Lovely, bulletproof blue and so far is well behaved.

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@lascosas that inkvent calendar is a very nice buy. You obviously know how to do this. 

 

I think I would have a hard time holding back!

Currently most used pen: Lamy 2000, Makrolon <F> -- filled with Lamy Pink Cliff ink

 

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These 2 lot bundles

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s-l1600.webp

As i see it you are never an expert just a beginner learning a new trick!

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A Smug Dill Museum Piece

A Smug Dill

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Sailor Shikiori Nadeshiko (not Manyo Nadeshiko) in a 20ml bottle.

I endeavour to be frank and truthful in what I write, show or otherwise present, when I relate my first-hand experiences that are not independently verifiable; and link to third-party content where I can, when I make a claim or refute a statement of fact in a thread. If there is something you can verify for yourself, I entreat you to do so, and judge for yourself what is right, correct, and valid. I may be wrong, and my position or say-so is no more authoritative and carries no more weight than anyone else's here.

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  I popped into my local art supply store to order some Herbin bottles and recognized the artist of the week (Alex Grey) for 10% off. I used the 10% off to buy a bottle of 1670 Bleu Océan. Blue with sparkles is like catnip to me ( ironically,I’m allergic to actual catnip and cats, for that matter).

Top 5 of 25 currently inked pens:

MontBlanc 144 IB, Herbin Orange Indien/ Wearingeul Frost

Sailor Mini Pro Gear Slim M, Van Dieman’s Neptune’s Necklace 

Waterman’s 52V red ripple ring top, Herbin Vert de Gris

Wing Sung 698 SF, Pelikan Edelstein Golden Lapis/ Sapphire 

Cross Wanderlust Malta M, DeAtramentis Columbia Blue-Bronze-Copper 

always looking for penguin fountain pens and stationery 

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Merrick Rare

Merrick

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Trying to add inks that are more vintage safe so I got Parker Quink blue-black, Waterman Serenity Blue, Montblanc Cool Gray, and Pelikan 4001 Brilliant Brown and Royal Blue. 

“Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.” 
 

-Groucho Marx

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Not a Fountain Pen Day thing, because I placed and paid for the order nearly an hour before it was FPD here in Sydney, even with Daylight Saving time in play.

 

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It had more to do with when the latest Taobao sales campaign kicked in, and the promotional offers because active on the marketplace platform.

 

I've never heard of (or, at least, never paid any attention to, in spite of their scrolling past in my field of vision) either of these brands before.

I endeavour to be frank and truthful in what I write, show or otherwise present, when I relate my first-hand experiences that are not independently verifiable; and link to third-party content where I can, when I make a claim or refute a statement of fact in a thread. If there is something you can verify for yourself, I entreat you to do so, and judge for yourself what is right, correct, and valid. I may be wrong, and my position or say-so is no more authoritative and carries no more weight than anyone else's here.

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Runnin_Ute

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Two bottles of ink arrived on Fountain Pen Day - one a third bottle (Waterman Serenity Blue) as #2 was empty, and a bottle of Waterman Mysterious Blue. A first time for me with this one. Now I have at least two inks for vintage sac pens.

Brad

"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind" - Rudyard Kipling
"None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try." - Mark Twain

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While Christmas shopping, today my wife brought home the discontinued Iroshizuku Kosumosu....a nice shading pink ink, from the reviews.

I've three other 'Pure inks' to review before I can try this one.

 

There is some sort of Iroshizuku brown ink that has been discontinued also, that I should get while the Christmas season of insanity is there.

In reference to P. T. Barnum; to advise for free is foolish, ........busybodies are ill liked by both factions.

Ransom Bucket cost me many of my pictures taken by a poor camera that was finally tossed. Luckily, the Chicken Scratch pictures also vanished.

The cheapest lessons are from those who learned expensive lessons. Ignorance is best for learning expensive lessons.

 

 

 

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I went into a local pen shop yesterday afternoon and tried out a few different pens (an Otto Hutt, a Visconti, and a Cleo Skribent).  No pen was begging to come home with me, but I wanted to support the store so picked up a bottle of Papier Plume's Honey Island Swamp Monster.  

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RJS Vintage

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On 10/28/2024 at 4:46 AM, The_Beginner said:

These 2 lot bundles

s-l1600-1.webp

s-l1600.webp

Some nice inks there! You'll have to let us know when you've tried a few. I have a number of the inks I can make out in the top photo- all v good!

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inkstainedruth

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When I was at OPS over the weekend, I ended up buying a bottle of Waterman Inspired Blue (their turquoise one) after trying it in a pen I was having repaired at the Indy-Pen-Dance table.  And then, on my last pass around the show on Sunday morning, picked up a bottle of Noodler's Red Rattler Eel at another table.  

In my defense, while I have a sample of RRE, I haven't actually tried it yet, so TECHNICALLY I'm going to call it valid for this thread.... :rolleyes:

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

"It's very nice, but frankly, when I signed that list for a P-51, what I had in mind was a fountain pen."

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lascosas

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Four Kobe inks I've not seen before (though 2 are different names and apparently the same ink).  Yahoo!Japan recent auction.  Seller's photos, these won't arrive for some time:

 

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On 11/6/2024 at 1:15 PM, RJS said:

Some nice inks there! You'll have to let us know when you've tried a few. I have a number of the inks I can make out in the top photo- all v good!

thank you sir i just swatched them all sadly in my haste i knocked 4 of my noodler ink bottles and well 4 inks gone and a bunch of others have stained labels now

As i see it you are never an expert just a beginner learning a new trick!

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gregamckinney Antique

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I'm waiting for a bottle of Diamine Red Dragon.  It is my favorite (from samples I've seen) dark red.

Don't feel bad. I'm old; I'm meh about most things.

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   A friend of mine asked me to go to Oblation with her to look at pens last week, and I ended up with Oblation’s Sitka Spruce ink, and Sailor Dipton Ice Dance. 

Top 5 of 25 currently inked pens:

MontBlanc 144 IB, Herbin Orange Indien/ Wearingeul Frost

Sailor Mini Pro Gear Slim M, Van Dieman’s Neptune’s Necklace 

Waterman’s 52V red ripple ring top, Herbin Vert de Gris

Wing Sung 698 SF, Pelikan Edelstein Golden Lapis/ Sapphire 

Cross Wanderlust Malta M, DeAtramentis Columbia Blue-Bronze-Copper 

always looking for penguin fountain pens and stationery 

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Prepping a small order for a converter and a few Lamy parts I noticed the Diamine inks were very reasonably priced so... I'm getting Chopin.

 

I already have Vivaldi, which I like a lot, and a few times have come across comments along the lines of 'if you enjoy Vivaldi, you will like the Chopin'. Greyish leaning blue does sound like my kinda colour. 🤍

Will work for pens... :unsure:

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StrawberryDaquiri Dipped Only

StrawberryDaquiri

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Picked up some 10 ml Jacques herbin bottles at the University bookstore today. LIE DE THÉ, PERLE NOIRE, BLEU AZUR, and AMBRE DE BIRMANIE

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