My wife wanted me to provide her a tiny sample of each of my inks for research purposes (she's a scientist and sometimes does forensics), along with a color key and a printed listing of each name, so I thought I'd post the whole thing here as well. The samples she asked for are too small to share here - each of them is just a little bigger than the period at the end of this sentence, and all 78 samples fit on a 1"x1" piece of paper.

• Aurora Blue

• Blot's Iron Gall

• Caran d'Ache Blue Night
• Caran d'Ache Blue Sky
• Caran d'Ache Caribbean Sea

• Conway Stewart Black

• Delta Blue

• Diamine New Century Aqua Blue
• Diamine New Century Mediterranean Blue
• Diamine New Century Sapphire Blue
• Diamine Old English Royal Blue
• Diamine Old English Steel Blue
• Diamine Old English Turquoise
• Diamine Registrar's (Iron Gall)

• Homemade Walnut Gall

• J. Herbin Bleu Nuit
• J. Herbin Eclat de Saphir

• Lamy Blue

• Levenger Blue Bahama
• Levenger Cobalt Blue
• Levenger Skies of Blue

• Montblanc Blue
• Montblanc Turquoise

• Noodler's American Eel Blue
• Noodler's American Eel Gruene Cactus
• Noodler's American Eel Turquoise
• Noodler's Antietam
• Noodler's Apache
• Noodler's Baystate Blue
• Noodler's Black
• Noodler's Blue
• Noodler's Cayenne
• Noodler's Concord Bream
• Noodler's Dragon's Napalm
• Noodler's Ellis Island
• Noodler's Golden Brown
• Noodler's Habanero
• Noodler's La Couleur Royale
• Noodler's Luxury Blue
• Noodler's Midnight Blue
• Noodler's Navajo Turquoise
• Noodler's Navy
• Noodler's Ottoman Azure
• Noodler's Polar Blue
• Noodler's Red
• Noodler's Summer Tanager
• Noodler's The Heart of Darkness
• Noodler's Turquoise
• Noodler's Violet
• Noodler's Year of the Golden Pig

• Omas Blue
• Omas Turquoise

• Parker Quink Blue

• Pelikan 4001 Blue
• Pelikan 4001 Blue-Black
• Pelikan 4001 Turquoise

• Private Reserve American Blue
• Private Reserve Avocado
• Private Reserve Black Magic Blue
• Private Reserve Blue Suede
• Private Reserve Chocolat
• Private Reserve DC Supershow Blue
• Private Reserve Electric DC Blue
• Private Reserve Lake Placid Blue
• Private Reserve Midnight Blues
• Private Reserve Naples Blue
• Private Reserve Orange Crush
• Private Reserve Purple Mojo
• Private Reserve Sherwood Green
• Private Reserve Tanzanite
• Private Reserve Tropical Blue

• Rohrer & Klingner Royal Blue
• Rohrer & Klingner Sea-Bluish

• S.T. Dupont Royal Blue

• Sheaffer Skrip Blue

• Visconti Blue
• Visconti Turquoise

• Waterman Florida Blue
• Waterman South Sea Blue

Col. Mustard in the Library with the fountain pen?

Those were tiny samples, but I imagine there are some really good processes out there for such testing. That's quite a list and variety of inks and colors by various manufacturers. I'm guessing the sampling would make a pretty good little database for ink information.

I thought I had a lot of inks. I was wrong. I'm still a newb. My list of inks pales in comparison. I'm also exclusively Noodler's at this time.

Great barking cheese, what a collection!!!

Note: For those of you who don't remember or missed it, WhosYerBob used the phrase, "Great barking cheese" in his review of Noodlers Baystate Blue ink). It was LOL time around here! A reminder of WYB's sense of humor.

John

Impressive collection!

How can you have all those blues and not possess Noodler's Manhattan Blue?

*Faints*

My humble collection numbers just five bottles and one inkwell.


<Edited by macthemaths in a moment of puritanical blasphemy removal.>

I've got it, but forgot to list it.

Wow. You need to take a family portrait of all your inks lined up!

I'm starting to collect, but it's hard cos we don't have many ink/pen shops in Hong Kong. All they have are black or blues.

Wow!

I don't think I'll ever have that many!... I'm more tempted to find a few I like and have multiple bottles...

I guess you like blue, then??

Yup; been trying to find the perfect blue. I found the perfect shade in Baystate Blue, but it's a tough ink to handle.

here's my collection: *ahem*
1. Noodler's red/black
2. a bit of leftoever noodler's eternal brown

that'll show you

I ran into the same problem when I was in Singapore. All I could find is Hero Ink, and it came in black, blue, or blue-black. Hopefully, things have changed there since I left in 1998.

At least you can find ink, up till a little while ago, I couldn't find a single pen store in Vegas. Now I do, still my ink list is quite tiny.

1) Aurora Black
2) Noodler's Navajo Turquoise
3) Sheaffer Skrip Red
4) Pelikan 4001 Royal Blue
5) PR Sherwood Green Fast Dry
6) a bit of Caran d'Ache Caribbean Turquoise, enough MAYBE 2 refills.

--Only Ink I've ever used/found in Hong Kong is either Blue (which I prefer) or Black (which I not so prefer).