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Took an ink sample shot for my pens that are inked. Admittedly most of my ink are from Montblanc, with some Visconti freebies. The MB inks not shown, are I think - Black, Blue-Black, Sepia, Emmanuel Green, and the special theme ones e.g. Love letters, seasons greetings, Ghandi.
Written on Clairefontaine A4 ruled pad, photo taken under direct sunlight. Montblanc 60's 149 BB - Montblanc Racing green Montblanc 100th historical F - Montblanc Royal Blue Visconti Midi van Gogh F - Montblanc Turquoise Faber Castell Ambition F - Montblanc Ruby Red Faber Castell Ambition F - Montblanc 2008 White Forest Montblanc Agatha Christie B - Visconti Black Montblanc Alexander Dumas F - Montblanc Royal Blue Montblanc Fiedrich Schiller M - Montblanc Bordeaux Montblanc Oscar Wilde M - Montblanc Violet Montblanc Jules Verne M - Visconti Blue Of all the MB inks I got here, I like the 2008 White Forest and the Violet best. Both are very rich and saturated ink. |
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I suggested something very similar to this to another member today as a competition.
Is that Montblanc Ruby Red the one that has the vanilla scent? You gotta love the width of that BB 149, how do you like it, as I understand that is a new pen for you? The Agatha Christie writes great too IMHO.
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I got the BB 149 from another FPN member. It's a 60's transitional 149 as the nib is a beautiful 18k tri-tone narrow shoulder, plastic piston, ebonite feed and plastic screwtop. Some photos here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/2carele...7622697515158/ Still have to adjust my writing to suit the 149 BB. It's a totally different writing experience compared to the F or EFs. |
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Your writing is so wonderfully legible! My squiggles are not nearly as impressive.
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What a helpful post. I love the Montblanc Racing Green, and the last one, Visconti Blue. Is it true that the only way I'll get to write with these beautiful colors is if I use a fountain pen? I'm really a rollerball kind of person but the only option is blue or black ink. So many people nowadays use rollerballs, it surprises me that there's not a greater selection of ink colors from which to choose. Thanks for your post. Faith
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Unfortunately there aren't that many choices for rollerballs. I was told that Monteverde sells gel refills for Montblanc ballpens. They also have rollerball refills per se. Since you mentioned you use Yafa's, which is Monteverde's distributor, probably you're using it anyways. http://monteverdepens.com/ecatalog/m...e_refills.html
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I have some good news . . . I contacted Monteverde customer service today and explained my dissatisfaction with their prior refills. They apologized and stated they reformulated these products due to numerous customer complaints and will be sending me 6 blue-black refills free of charge. How cool is that?! (I was also told they are working on formulating additional colors for the MB rollerballs - great news!
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He he he I had a similar experience with MB ink cartridges. Once I bought a packet of cartridges from the boutique. Got home found out the sealed cartridges have evaporated by like 40-50%.
Took them back, they refunded and gave me new ones free of charge. So, motto is that if you buy ink, open it up and check before you leave the shop. |
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Certainly, Gus. I'd be happy to!!!
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Bummer!!!
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You can still order it online, here is one supplier in MA I just found!
http://bromfieldpenshop.com/catalog/...l_sku=MB-39100 |
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That's an excellent price shandy, I paid twice that amount a couple of weeks ago
And I paid $25 a bottle for the Montblanc Violet too Which I highly recommend too Faith. If you are going to get one bottle you may as well make the package worthwhile. The violet is very well regarded as an extremely high quality ink
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I was also told that MB violet has been discontinued.
Looks like MB will be re-branding their ink names in the new year or something. |
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