Looking through the final edition of Greg Clark's Ink Sampler, I noticed this ink on page 33. I haven't seen it on any supplier's site or even on Noodler's site. Is Emerald City Green an exclusive for a supplier outside of the USA?

Thanks,
Ann

I think that is an exclusive ink for World Lux in Seattle. Emerald City is the nickname for Seattle. My friend Annie sent me a writing sample with it. To me it looks in the same family of green as Marine Green, but lighter.

I think that's right--I got a snail with it recently. Very pretty!

Thanks Taki and Sonia...World Lux was one place I didn't think of. There's so many Noodler's colors that I can't keep up with them anymore!

Best, Ann

I wanna see the label! I have plenty of greens; it's sweet Ozian labels I lack.

I have a bottle-I think it close to Gruene Cactus. And the label is pretty cool. Has the Needle on it.

Emerald City Green is a World Lux exclusive. Taki is correct, it is named after the city of Seattle and not the Wizard of Oz. I think it's slightly darker, but just as bright, a Gruene Cactus. The label has a drawing of the Space Needle and what looks to be the Columbia Center (aka Bank of America Building) and a few others in the Seattle skyline.

Wow, that sounds really cool. I love Gruene Cactus and it would be great to have a waterproof version! I've just checked their webside, though, and found their shipping to Europe to be sth. like $ 40.00 - What a shame.
As it's an exclusive I reckon I'll never be able to get it anywhere else?

edited to ask this:
Could someone who has it please, please post a scan?? I'm so curious.

Thanks, Nellie

want it . . . badly

I wanna know what that one once bottle is in that line-up....

-Bruce

The "Texas Patriot Bottle", total of 301 bottles produced (and so marked). The artwork on the bottle was done by army guys who knew my great uncle (WW II and 1930s era) - stationed in Texas and Ft. Clayton, Panama. I have an image of all the troops lined up along the canal standing at attention in 110 degree heat facing FDR as he reviewed them going through the canal (probably will wind up on a future bottle - perhaps if Noodler's ever makes it to Panama?). My uncle always claimed a few fellows passed out and fell in the water - but you had to stay at attention anyway. The image on Lexington Gray is of the original (pre-Coral Sea) USS Lexington passing through the canal as seen through the mirror at the control station.

I believe they might still have 20 or so "Patriot Bottles" left in Houston - carried by Dromgoole's Pen Shop. Don't quote me if I am wrong - because they could have run out.

What's the one on the far right?

Fountain Pen Hospital is within walking distance of Wall Street....so an ink that was as durable and as close in terms of color and penetration to the old certificate issuers ink was made... There was a green ink used a very long time ago - in four shades. What became known as "greenbacks" relates to the inks used at the time for currency and certain bond issuance (I am referencing inks that are more than 140 years old). The originals were not fountain pen inks - if a bond correction was issued they used dip pens and printing devices.

There are 144 bottles in batch #1 - the lightest green shade of bond and currency issuance from the 19th century. Batch #2 will be a different, darker shade - issued as 144 bottles. Then batch #3 and batch #4 (the darkest shade) - and that's it. Each bottle is numbered, each box is numbered - specific to that production run - and will not be made again.


Here is a picture of what a bottle looks like under black light....

wow that emerald city green looks really nice...

Yep it's an exclusive from Worldlux so not easy to find. My heart is in the Emerald City so I had to get a bottle. From my experience, the color is a bright emerald green color, but the feathering is high with a flexible nib... even on Clairfontaine paper. Drying is medium. Moderate bleed through on same paper type. Start up/drying out - no issues. In general on the wet side of flow. It is of a similar shade but a little brighter than PR Spearmint, brighter than Diamine Umber and Noodlers Green. Reminds me of an Easter egg green color. Sorry no scanner.

Under black light, that shade of green reminds of the color used by the New York Central Railroad in the 1960s, even after they merged with the Pennsylvania Railroad, and becamse the "Penn Central System." Oh god what a disaster that business decision was.