What Was Your First Bottle Of Ink

[Misfit]

Hi there! I'm new here, but this looks like a fun community.

 

My first bottle took forever to choose. I had previously used cartridges, but felt that the color choices for that brand were a bit stifling. I knew there were more colors out there, but had no idea just how many until I went to make a purchase.

 

After agonizing over the choices, I surprised myself by selecting a bottle of J. Herbin Bleu Myosotis. I'm not much of a blue fan in general, but from the moment I saw it, I knew I had to have it. It is such a variable ink - it shades beautifully, dries much paler than it writes when wet, and seems to darken as it sits in the pen. It reminds me of the sea and sky on a stormy day.

 

I've tried a number of inks over the years thanks to sampling services, but I always have one pen inked with Bleu Myosotis. I never would have guessed that I would fall in love with my first ink.

I'm going to check this ink out, thanks to your description. It sounds fascinating.

[Intellidepth]

Private Reserve Ebony Purple. It had to be not-blue, but I was too afraid to buy a full bottle of anything not conservatively-passable. Next bottle was J Herbin Rouge Opera, followed swiftly by Iroshi Kon Peki. So, being subtly conservative didn't last too long.

[Reevers]

Pelikan 4001 Königsblau (Royal blue?)

 

I still like the ink & will probably always keep a bottle in, even just for nostalgia.

[Pravda]

Mine was MB Black (old version) that came with my first fountain pen a 149

[theolu]

Mine was Diamine Midnight. Happy to say it's still in heavy rotation.

[DonLeone]

Pelikan Blue I think. That was like a million years ago when people still had weird pants.

 

Actually, I'm not sure if they ever didn't have weird pants.

 

Skinny pants aren't pants >8[

 

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[Mullen88]

Graf von Faber-Castell Cobalt Blue. Great ink.

[jasonchickerson]

My first order of ink was three bottles, I think. Herbin Cacao du Bresil and Terre de Feu and R&K Alt-goldgrun. Still my top three favorites.

[Glen1981]

I got a parker vector calligraphy set in a grey box and bottles of turquoise, green, red, blue and black Quink from my parents one Christmas in the early nineties.

[VicVac]

The sadly discontinued montblanc British racing green. Before that I used cartridges- lamy blue will have been my first.

[inkobsessed]

Sheaffer bleu-black in the early 80's, In those days they made real nice bleu-black unlike the greenish nowaday's from Parker, Waterman and also Sheaffer. Today only Pelikan 4001 comes close, so that's what I use.

 

Joop

[thorn]

Sheaffer bleu-black in the early 80's,

 

 

My first ink was Shaeaffer Skrip blue that I got in the 80s. I only used my FP on and off then. I still have some and use it time to time, I had to change the cap since it got stuck. I also got some black Parker in the late 80s. That's the only kind of ink you could find back then.

[Charles Rice]

Maybe I shouldn't be, but I am a little surprised by the number of people who have joined the fountain pen ranks so recently that they know - and in some cases still have - the first bottle of ink they ever bought.

[Flaxmoore]

Maybe I shouldn't be, but I am a little surprised by the number of people who have joined the fountain pen ranks so recently that they know - and in some cases still have - the first bottle of ink they ever bought.

 

I know for me, I save the bottles as a visual representation of all the work I've done. That half-bottle of 54th was 3 months of hospital work. The mostly-empty Tuski-yo? A tough month on ICU. The mostly-gone Salix? 10 pages a day on Pediatrics.

 

It's just a nice remembrance.

[Inkydinkydog]

Back in the dark ages,sheaffer skrip blue.

[iveyman]

Mine was Noodler's Eel Black for the smooth eel oil effect. I am also using Noodler's Eel Blue now, daily.

[mmg122]

You can sure spot the "oldtimers" on this thread!

 

Sheaffer Peacock Blue was my first bottle of ink purchased and still one of my all time favorites.

[inkstainedruth]

You can sure spot the "oldtimers" on this thread!

 

Sheaffer Peacock Blue was my first bottle of ink purchased and still one of my all time favorites.

Not an old-timer by any stretch of the imagination, but after finding a 2/3 full pint bottle of Peacock Blue in an antiques mall last summer, I can understand why it would be someone's favorite....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[lionheartlee]

Parker Quink black. I purchased it because it was the only bottle available at staples. Have yet to use it because of all of the other bottles that magically appeared on my desk

[j1020]

Pelikan 4001 Black