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The full version of this review along with all my others can be found at The Dizzy Pen.

 

This is the first of six reviews I’m doing thanks to FPN member “Alecgold.” In December of last year, he decided to give away the majority of his fountain pen ink collection to people willing to review them on FPN. I offered, he accepted, and he sent me 6 bottles of ink. I got the box in February 2011, but I was unable to do the reviews until now, so here we go.

 

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Great review of a favourite ink of mine. I just love its colour and properties - unique, in my opinion.

 

It is to blame for my collection of inks, really. My husband brought back 6 cartridges of it for me from somewhere (maybe Shanghai) and I fell in love. I'd only used purple and blue Waterman ink prior to that. I'm very jealous that you got the bottle of it from Alecgold but I have a stack of the carts now so I'm happy.

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It truly is a wonderful color. It's just a shame that it has been discontinued. I was using it again today and was struck by the awesome shading properties of this ink.

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