Looking for an ink

[amberleadavis]

Your pen pal may not remember what ink he used, but if he could tell you what sparkling green inks he owns, we could probably figure it out.

[Just J]

Gotcha. But there's a problem in that that I'd rather not get into. 

Thanks, tho. ~8》

~_/ 

 

[Bo Bo Olson]

AltGoldgrun is a must have ink.......some time soon....I'll have to ink it again. I've been probably saying that for the last decade. 

[Just J]

3 hours ago, Bo Bo Olson said:

AltGoldgrun is a must have ink.......

I remem'd you saying that before, which piqued my curiosity so...had that peek. Liked what i saw there, but somewhat surprised to see your saying it's not glittered. But then, i happen to already have a jar of gold mica; i could roll my own! 

 

Which reminds me...I've seen from the days of yore - apparently it was common practice to sprinkle 'something' from a shaker, over the still-wet ink from your quill pen, & pour off the excess before sending. I always thought it was some kind of glitter, for 'show' as well as to help the ink dry. Can't remember since picking up this hobby, anyone even so much as mentioning that practice. Perhaps today's quicker-drying inks make it impractical? 

[Carrau]

Here’s a link to Diamine Golden Ivy at Mountain of Inks. Look at the writing for a better idea of the green-the swab looks more green than the ink appears in writing (I had a sample that I can’t locate at the moment).

https://mountainofink.com/blog/diamine-golden-ivy

 

Some other candidates would be Herbin Vert Atlantide, and Kyo-no-oto  Ryukuyuiro.  They are understated greens with shimmer, less olive and more to the green-grey side of things, very similar, and both linked here:

 

https://mountainofink.com/blog/j-herbin-vert-atlantide

 

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/358107-kyoto-tag-kyo-no-oto-no12-ryukuyuiro/

 

[Bo Bo Olson]

1 hour ago, Just J said:

apparently it was common practice to sprinkle 'something' from a shaker, over the still-wet ink from your quill pen, & pour off the excess before sending. I always thought it was some kind of glitter, for 'show' as well as to help the ink dry.

Dried crushed cuttle fish was in the 'sand' shaker. That absorbed ink...before the roller blotter came in.

Sand had been used when one had a pile of documents to let the ink dry so it didn't smear the back. Sand don't absorb ink.

 

Mostly Hollywood is wrong about the full feather quill fluttering in the air. A large percentage of the quills had been shaved up to a feathered tip, left for brushing off the powdered cuttle fish and or sand.

When living in a drafty high ceiling building, one didn't want the air currents slamming your feather quill around as you wrote....so it was 'streamlined'.

The wing chairs were 'invented' so you could sit near a fire place and not get frozen by the air rushing through the room up the chimney. In the heat of the summer the windows and doors were open hoping for a draft....and Murphy ruled back then too. Then there was the windy spring and fall.

@ 1850 French...silver.

 

Below....KPM. I guess 1870/80's also has a cuttle fish 'sander'. I just never got around to having a close up of that.

I've a lot of  inkwell sets, but only two that one can shake powdered cuttle fish over one's writing.

Well I have a few ink rollers, a couple with fresh proper paper....so I don't need to go buy ground up cuttle fish....or grind it myself.

 

By the 1920's, I don't think the inkwell sets had shakers any more.

Meissen... pre-'22's. This is I think after 1900,...(after rollers came in) perhaps 1914////22?? The end of historismus. Some remnants of historismus actually lasted into the very early '20s. Historismus started with the unification of Germany in 1872, as the new middle class wanted to prove they too had a history of class, so various old styles were mixed together to appear older....but not really second hand.

 

Meissen.... The middle piece where the pen rests is from 1924-34 Pfeiffer time. The rest is before or after....call it mid '30's.

 

[Bo Bo Olson]

8 minutes ago, Carrau said:

https://mountainofink.com/blog/diamine-golden-ivy

Was not around when I bought my Diamine 4 glitter inks**.....and time really fly's....I'd not realized that was some 5 years ago, when I spent time looking at which Diamine Glitter inks shaded best.

 

** And or, Sheen was still sort of new.....so I missed it.