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I found these online, but the shipping from Australia was ridiculous. But a friend, who lives a few miles from the store shipped them to me for a fraction of what the store would have charged.

 

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Great find! I just recently found a blue and bordeaux in the glass bottles with the box. These certainly are getting harder to find at anything approaching a reasonable price!

 

Congrats. :thumbup:

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Are these inks any good? I see my local penstore stocking them but I was never really interested. A writing sample perhaps?

Fountain pens are like weapons. They just make your pocket bleed so much.

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Great find! I just recently found a blue and bordeaux in the glass bottles with the box. These certainly are getting harder to find at anything approaching a reasonable price!

 

Congrats. :thumbup:

 

You got those on ebay didn't you. I missed the closing of the Turquoise, and you beat me on the Bordeaux.

 

 

Are these inks any good? I see my local penstore stocking them but I was never really interested. A writing sample perhaps?

 

With the exception of the Turquoise the colors leave me a little bored, but I've found the behaviour of these inks to be exceptional.

 

If you want to see some samples, you should check the index of Ink Reviews: https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/index.php/topic/160612-index-of-ink-reviews/page-2?do=findComment&comment=1743432

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You got those on ebay didn't you. I missed the closing of the Turquoise, and you beat me on the Bordeaux.

 

I actually got them at the San Francisco pen show. They were just sitting on a table blending in to their surroundings. After missing a bunch on ebay and the classifieds here, I practically snatched them off the table.

 

I agree with you about the colors. I mostly just like the turquoise. I really just got the other two because I like the bottles so much and will reuse them once the original ink is gone.

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I actually got them at the San Francisco pen show. ...

 

That's a fun coincidence. Just this past week the first Visconti Glass Bottles in several months showed up on ebay, and it was those 2 colors.

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I like their Blue the best. Glass is great because glass is glass... but I also love these old boxes because I find the current plastic veils not even mediocre.

 

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Woo Hoo!!!!

Fountain pens are my preferred COLOR DELIVERY SYSTEM (in part because crayons melt in Las Vegas).

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Don't know where to start?  Look at the Inky Topics O'day.  Then, see inks sorted by color: Blue Purple Brown Red Green Dark Green Orange Black Pinks Yellows Blue-Blacks Grey/Gray UVInks Turquoise/Teal MURKY

 

 

 

 

 

 

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