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In general, purple inks (and red inks) tend to stain pen parts, although Skrips purple may a better option from the staining standpoint. https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/305572-purple-sheaffer-skrip/ I think it will be challenging to find a water resistant purple ink from the manufacturers generally considered safe for vintage pens. JHerbin Amethyste de L’Oural has been reviewed as having some water resistance, and is made by a manufacturer often considered “safe” for vintage pens. It is, however, a “glitter” ink, which many avoid using in any pen. A potential way around this is to allow the glitter to settle to the bottom, then either decant to another bottle, or draw ink only from the upper portion of the bottle.

4 Octopus inks two shading; Caramel and Bronze and two sheen; Medusa and Sea Dragon.. Money came whistling around the corner with his hands in his pockets; so I mugged him with my gold plated shovel..

Thank you for the response Arcfide, Yea I would agree with you that the letters not being fully formed is definitely as Duffy said "squiggles". Hmmm thats interesting I didn't think of it like that, but now that I have that makes a lot of sense, I think I have tried to make the writing have that flat elongated look but I neglected to increase the hight of the letters to maintain that readability. I will look over it soon and do a revised style of writing that hopefully maintains those ideas. Ah yes, I completely agree with this, I think I mostly do it without thinking but it 100% makes it much harder to read as even sometimes I struggle to see what letters I wrote haha... Definitely going to work on that letter formation. I think this is a great idea as from the examples you sent they are easily readable and still have that sorta more flat look that I like about my writing, I will definitely be trying this out but as you said its all in jest without proper letter formation. Thank you for the help, Max

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Jinhao 159 green and white.

Jinhao 159 black Jinhao 950

Beowulf was a bit much, but I managed Chaucer.

This auction:

What a great looking pen! Congratulations. Now I want one like this as well. 😊

i understand "last" here more in the sense of "most recent".

There's no such thing as a last pen purchase.

Actually a used one was available on a Bonhams auction last year if I recall correctly, which had been inked and showed some wear from use, with an estimate of between $6k to $8k, which i tried going for but it ended up selling for $26k

Caviar and Bordeaux look really interesting... might have to stump up €24 to get the pair of them!

Ask them and report back?

Money came whistling around the corner with both hands in his pocket...so I mugged him. Both papers ordered and my 4 Octopus inks.

I don't know if I would agree there... French "cerveau" (not cerbeau) for the hardware - yes. The mind could be nicely translated with "esprit". Or "compréhension" if the meaning goes into the direction of understanding. German: "Gehirn" for the hardware and "Geist" (like esprit) or "Verstand" (like compréhension). I doubt that there are many languages where you can't differentiate between the hardware and the software.

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taller and taller

As he grew

After losing my wonderful black AL Sport at Malaga airport in 2020 (I overlooked it in the black box at the security check), replaced by a light blue AL Sport (sold in the meantime), followed by a raw aluminium version, I finally purchased a black one again. Why? Because the black one's surface has a unique touch to the fingers, that I found to be missing with the other ones. Cheers & happy writing, sebastian

he never knew

This should give you a rough idea, give or take a few thousand, depending on how desperate the buyer or the seller are and whether the sale is a direct bilateral one or via a middle person https://www.bonhams.com/auction/24187/lot/93/montblanc-75th-anniversary-18k-gold-skeleton-limited-edition-75-fountain-pen/ and https://www.ebay.com/itm/371834095922?itmmeta=01HWA0SH2Y5DS8J6WVP07P9TDH&hash=item56930a0932:g:VnQAAOxyOBJRDxgf

Do you use a Cartridge or converter?