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Nice review. I liked these cartridges enough that I bought a bottle just before they were gone from my local Paradise Pens shelves. While others prefer the color of MB Toffee (Sepia's replacement), I really like the Sepia's water resistance.

"Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination."

Oscar Wilde

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A strangely unloved ink. I think the colour is unique, and while Toffee Brown is excellent, there are plenty of similar shades out there.

 

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Strange ink in that it evokes a bi-polar reaction in me. Sometimes I love it, sometimes I hate it. I have a bottle in use and a back-up--go figure. It's an especially nice ink if you're looking for something on the dried blood side of color.

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Interesting from what I remember my color was completely different.

Different paper more than likely. I'd never tired it on any thing better than copy paper.

 

It was the ink I bought.....

 

Well as a Noobie, one believes things one should not.

A. Buy the MB bottle, dump any and all MB inks. The bottle is Great!

B. There was so much hate of British Racing Green, and I didn't know shading from a hole in the ground.

C. I'd never ever written with a brown ink.

 

I took the Sepia. I found it better than everyone was saying....but could be a lot of folks didn't like it because it didn't glow in the dark.

I retired it to the cobweb corner when I got the MB Toffee.

 

It may be my only water resistant ink...out side of perhaps Pelikan Black. I am how ever only a 10 ink noobie.

My third brown is Pelikan, it too need a better paper to shade.

In reference to P. T. Barnum; to advise for free is foolish, ........busybodies are ill liked by both factions.

 

 

The cheapest lessons are from those who learned expensive lessons. Ignorance is best for learning expensive lessons.

 

 

 

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It's been in my MB149 for the past month or two. I really like this ink.

"Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination."

Oscar Wilde

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Maybe it's just the picture, but this ink definitely looks more like a dark red to me than what I'd expect of a true 'sepia' color (i.e. dark brown/gray) - MB Toffee Brown would strangely better fit the bill.

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Maybe it's just the picture, but this ink definitely looks more like a dark red to me than what I'd expect of a true 'sepia' color (i.e. dark brown/gray) - MB Toffee Brown would strangely better fit the bill.

 

I am currently using the last of the cartridges I got of this ink from a pay it forward. I decided to use it in a Montblanc pen. I will post reactions when I am able to get into the ink more.

 

 

 

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I just bought one botlle this evening and tried for a couple hours! I'm very happy cause it was the last bottle (the old one)!! I didn't know it was water resistant, which is a great news, because I need to use waterproof (or at least water resistant) inks at work.

 

The color is beautiful, very beautiful, in my opinion, mainly when it dries, and has a good shading. I've never tried MB Toffee Brown to compare, though.

 

The only problem (or quality, depending on the viewpoint): it has a low saturation. It can be nice to use in high end pens, because it can be easy to flushing the pen or using in demonstrators (I didn't flush yet to affirming that).

 

Edited: I forgot to say that it's a bit on the dry side. Probably nice to use into my Pelikans and Viscontis, which are pretty wet.

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MB Sepia fought it's way out of cobweb corner.

 

I now like that ink a lot.

I was using it with a semi-flex KOB and a Fine. I liked the shading.

Right now it's not in a pen, but I just got three new brown inks this week. (Not counting 5 other inks...taking up pens.)

 

I think I'll lay hands on a bottle, even if discontinued. I'm sure no one bunkered it like Racing Green.

 

I now have six brown inks and it's MB toffee that's taking the knock now. Well, I only got it in one pen, a regular flex M.

 

Nib width and flex along with paper makes such a difference in tone and hue.

In reference to P. T. Barnum; to advise for free is foolish, ........busybodies are ill liked by both factions.

 

 

The cheapest lessons are from those who learned expensive lessons. Ignorance is best for learning expensive lessons.

 

 

 

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MB Sepia fought it's way out of cobweb corner.

 

I now like that ink a lot.

I was using it with a semi-flex KOB and a Fine. I liked the shading.

Right now it's not in a pen, but I just got three new brown inks this week. (Not counting 5 other inks...taking up pens.)

 

I think I'll lay hands on a bottle, even if discontinued. I'm sure no one bunkered it like Racing Green.

 

I now have six brown inks and it's MB toffee that's taking the knock now. Well, I only got it in one pen, a regular flex M.

 

Nib width and flex along with paper makes such a difference in tone and hue.

 

 

I'm using into my Pelikan M1000 Medium and Homo Sapiens 1.3stub . Both pens are pretty wet! The results are gorgeous! I'm falling in love with its beautiful shading!:cloud9: I'm also imagining how nice it's into your german semi-flex/ flex pens!

 

Edited: Will MB Sepia be discontinued???

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Will MB Sepia be discontinued???

I'm pretty certain that it already has.

"Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination."

Oscar Wilde

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It is discontinued. :headsmack:

They discontinued it when they killed Racing Green.

In reference to P. T. Barnum; to advise for free is foolish, ........busybodies are ill liked by both factions.

 

 

The cheapest lessons are from those who learned expensive lessons. Ignorance is best for learning expensive lessons.

 

 

 

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What a pity! :( They killed all the nice inks: MB Racing Green, Sepia, Parker Penman Sapphire...

 

I noted a strange detail in my Sepia bottle: although, it's the old bottle, it's deeper and taller than the another MB old bottle that I have. The "V" part, where we dip the pen, it's really deeper! I don't know there were two different old MB bottles! :hmm1:

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I took the sledgehammer to the tin piggy bank. I ordered MB Sepia for €17.00 that had cost 12.

OK at least there was no postage. So it's nearly regular cost, with postage....nearly.

 

So with a second bottle, I'm now good for the rest of the decade.

By then the search for the replication of MB Sepia will have found a match... or soon after they find a match for MB Racing Green.

In reference to P. T. Barnum; to advise for free is foolish, ........busybodies are ill liked by both factions.

 

 

The cheapest lessons are from those who learned expensive lessons. Ignorance is best for learning expensive lessons.

 

 

 

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Strange ink in that it evokes a bi-polar reaction in me. Sometimes I love it, sometimes I hate it. I have a bottle in use and a back-up--go figure. It's an especially nice ink if you're looking for something on the dried blood side of color.

 

I am having the same reaction: Sometimes I like it, sometimes I really hate it. It's very pale and reddish. This is not Sepia at all. It is what happens a week or two after you have spilled a cheap Bordeaux onto a white cotton table cloth and then put it in the wash.

 

I have it in my 149 and I'm thinking of changing back to Toffee Brown.

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This was my first bottle of ink when I started out. I'd been past the Mont Blonc shop in San Jose many times, once I connected the name to FP's (after finding FPN) I stepped in and asked about inks. They had 8 bottles in a drawer and I grabbed the only brown color they had. It's now more a nostalgia ink for me and I only use it once in a while.

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