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Came across this ad !!!!

 

And personally, instead of ugly new packaging and silly names, I think Waterman should have gone back in this direction!!!

It'd probably cost way too much to make those bottles these days. Certainly they'd charge way too much for them :gaah: .

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It'd probably cost way too much to make those bottles these days. Certainly they'd charge way too much for them :gaah: .

Maybe someone could convince Montblanc to make a bottle like that. They certainly don't have any qualms about charging too much for stuff.

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Yeah, I saw that a couple months ago, posted it somewhere else. Frankly, I've been trolling the Bay looking for one of those bottles, to no avail. I hate to think I'm going to have to pop for having an Akkerman mailed here to the States, but I might not be able to resist.

We just had a group buy here on FPN from Akkerman to the US. Thanks to 'lovmac' here for handling it, he placed the order on Monday.

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We just had a group buy here on FPN from Akkerman to the US. Thanks to 'lovmac' here for handling it, he placed the order on Monday.

I must have been snoozing, and now I am losing. I'll keep an eye out for the next round...

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Akkerman's pricing and shipping makes it basically three bottles as a minimum, should you decide to buy directly.

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It'd probably cost way too much to make those bottles these days. Certainly they'd charge way too much for them :gaah: .

Maybe someone could convince Montblanc to make a bottle like that. They certainly don't have any qualms about charging too much for stuff.

 

I'd buy it if they put a snazzy white star on the lid!

With the new FPN rules, now I REALLY don't know what to put in my signature.

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back to the origins of the akkerman bottle:

to shed more light on the origin of the gimborn longneck bottle: the eight-sided version of copier was predated by an rounded version without the facets, stating the name
" gimborn" and "langhals" or "baby langhals" embossed on the glass bottle. this version is the second longneck. and this version is similar to the waterman version.
to the best of my knowledge the gimborn second version predates the waterman bottle.

http://inkbottles.nl/gimborn/P1030105.JPG
second "longneck" version

 

 

the very first version of the longneck, also by gimborn was produced from 1927-1930 and is very,very rare today. I saw two of them in a museum and I dug one up
in a bottledump in the netherlands, which I traded with a former gimborn employee. as of this year we have permission to dig at this bottledump, so my hope is that
I unearth a few more examples of the first version longneck.

I collect inkbottles,glue bottles and other related stuff from the dutch firm of Gimborn which ended in 1980.
gimborn has an amazing variety of ink-bottles and labels. that`s why I decided to collect exclusively Gimborn bottles.
in the next days/weeks I will start a new topic on this forum, showing my collection of Gimborn ink-bottles and of course show the different versions of the longneck bottles.

greetings from a dutch Gimborn collector.
hans

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