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For more details/information about your lovely 400, I recommend that you open the following link to the superb website about vintage Pelikan pens that has been created by FPN’s own @tacitus: https://tacitus124.wixsite.com/vintagepelikanpens/400-ca-1952 Slàinte, M.

Sigh cubed. AH HA!!!!!! M&K is worth the mailing to the States...German post is still 1/3 cheaper than US.. There is three versions, all very good. The 95g once typewriter paper...now named Office paper is great ...one...sided...paper in it's typewriter paper. I haven't laid hand on the other two versions lately...but I seldom go on line. I do have 2 1/2 M&K 95g typewriter/Office. It's not a pad, but loose 100 sheets in a fold over pad like cover. It's the paper I reach for just after testing an ink on CT or Oxford Optic...always with in reach. When I got bit by that rabid paper beast, I went down town Heidelberg to every place that sold paper...having looked it up. The best Rossler was a joy to write on the feather champ...in all levels. And Brunner is poor...even it's index cards which just ended up in my Ball Point Barbarian wife's fold out office cubical. Brunner papers of all sorts...even Deckel papers where one would expect more were nothing but ball point and printer papers.................OUT SIDE OF M&K. M&K had been an extraordinary good paper companies in the '50's that was eventually bought up by Brunner and ...Not Ruined.

Hi, looking for some help! I've been using Online's kombi/combi cartridges in my Lamy Safari, and I really like their midnight blue (nachtblau), also called blue/black in some places. It's a very grey blue-black. Looks a little more blue when it goes on the page but dries to something more grey, with a hint of blue. However, it looks like they've discontinued them. They are shown as unavailable on Combi Ink Cartridge | ONLINE Shop (online-pen.com) and supply is drying up everywhere. So I'm looking for an equivalent in a bottle, but I'm struggling. I've tried: - Lamy Blue/black: Too light and too blue - Diamine blue black: Too blue, not really much grey - Cult Pens (Diamine) Deep Dark Blue: Way too saturated and too blue. I'm considering trying Diamine Chopin. Looking at reviews, it seems like Mont Blanc Midnight Blue might be fairly close, but it's an expensive ink and I don't want to buy that just to try it out and find it also isn't right. So.. .HELP! Have any of you tried the Online Midnight Blue cartridges yourselves? If so, have you found anything in a bottle that's close? Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

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Me too!

They have not yet been sneaky enough to change that number when reusing a color under a new name

so they told me. This one is made in Canada. The next one I'm eyeing is ribbed, with blue end remade. Still Canadian though

Wasn’t aware, one can trace this by the numbers. Pls, tell me more about that.. Here they are: Coral 2318-O401 Blue 2405-O401

Thank you for posting the unboxing. Really interesting scrollwork on the nib. Would love to see a close-up if/when you have the time.

What number do they give in the bottoms of the bottles, so people can see if these are reused or actually new colors.

Sorry, I mean aesthetic flaws (though there is an unboxing of one on YouTube that has a manufacturing flaw in the trim ring). Also I do believe in videos I detect the finial being slightly off center in the metal caps, something I've seen on year 2 ATW80 solitaires

Just posted some first impressions on the coral and blue ink, take a look: https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/374967-montblanc-100y-meisterstück-le-the-origin-collection-—-coral-blue/

Hello everyone, Here is a first impression of the LE inks, which still have the status “coming soon”. However, I was able to buy two of them. In my eyes, the inks fit with Ancient Egypt and the iconic Montblanc’s Egyptian fountain pens in the 1920s, which have been released before the Meisterstück: The blue is a light lapis lazuli, quite common in paintings in Ancient Egypt. It is a fairly homogeneous ink with little shading, as you can see in the writing sample with a B round corn nib. It is more likely to benefit from being applied with a wider and very wet nib — e.g. Italic. The red is a carnelian tone that I really like and it has a stronger shading. The ink is not that wet. I made the writing sample with a flat cut nib corn, some may reckon MB broad nibs as Italics. In terms of color, I wouldn't describe it as "coral", as that is a quite wide spectrum and inaccurate. (My compliments to the daltonists at MB Marketing,-) I'm pretty thrilled because I was searching a lot for an authentic carnelian. It is exactly what I was looking for. Enjoy, Todor 😊

Thanks for the sample! Interesting. I know that Brilliant Black is quite a bit different in color than the Parker and Waterman inks, so the color comparison isn't as useful, but I see what you mean by the fading. However, I do have some modern Waterman/Parker that will look close to that shade on some papers, though I don't know if exactly so. I think Iroful does this most dramatically. On some of these papers, the blue in the Waterman/Parker ink comes out very strongly.

Apologies, I wrote Waterman whilst I should have referred to to Pelikan. The Parker “black” has faded as you can see from this photo.

For the day..

Original cap & barrel ends? Beautiful pen & nib.

Indeed, it seems to be hard to get outside Europe. The irony is in the fact that you can't buy it in dedicated office stores but in the food supermarket. There it is among the cheapest and, for pen and ink, among the best you can get. This one is the loose sheet 80 gsm paper which is OK-ish, but not great any more. Somewhen during 2023 the composition was changed. If you are lucky and can get one of the old batches, it will be excellent paper. The new is below average. Something similar happened with the formerly excellent Staufen Post, which is now in the range of toilet paper. 👎 Another one is the also discontinued Neusiedler Japan Post 80 gsm, which was available until about 2-3 years ago, but is discontinued as well. 😪 If you find some NOS, buy immediately. This one is the good Kyome (the link points to the blanc, it is also available lined or with square grid). The Brunnen letter pad is another very good paper. If you can live with heavy paper in the range of 90 to 100 gsm, the already mentioned Gohrsmühle paper in loose leafs (Amazon) or Fritz Schimpf letter pad are a strong recommendation. The 80 gsm Rhodia paper is a good choice, but is in its quality a tiny bit below Gohrmühle and Fritz Schimpf. Surprise of 2024 is the Faber Colori pad 70 gsm, which is darn cheap and has surprisingly good compatibility with pen and ink. It makes a bit thinner ink lines (ink repellent?) but is a shading master, similar to the 70 gsm Kyome!

Watermans Hundred Year Pen in maroon and amber transparent end. Akkerman ink. Medium nib

Cool idea and reuse of an item @txomsy

In fact in the box and papers pictured is readable "made in Germany".

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and the vampires

Missed this earlier on. Some of us have no sense (me for example). I have two custom Ebonite Ranga Majestics. One with a Bock Ti #8, and the other with an MB 149 14k nib -FNF housing.