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I believe this was a limited edition ink produced for the 2015 Commonwealth Pen Show in Boston. As always Nathan Tardif produces some inks with the most intriguing properties. I was fortunate to receive a sample of this ink just recently coincidental to some discussion of the actual color of the ink. Some original reviews indicated the ink was a "blue-black". Others who recently used the ink discovered the ink was not a blue-black, but a chalky blue, much like a traditional washable blue.

 

Well the vial I received was of a chalky blue. Thank you inky friend! :wub:

 

The ink is supposed to be waterproof as I understand it, but I'll have more on that in a moment. In the Edison Premiere with a Fine steel nib, the ink wrote more like a medium and exhibited some show through and varying degrees of bleed through. This was even on high quality paper such as Rhodia/Clairefontaine. But when I switched to a Pelikan M205 with a Fine steel nib that is quite frugal the writing was as expected: the fine nib wrote like a fine, with a little show through but nothing problematic, no bleed through. So my guess is the Edison was just too wet for this ink.

 

There is a pink dye component to this ink, but that dye is not waterproof. It is that dye that spreads somewhat and penetrates to the other side of the paper. The blue dye does not budge. So after the water the recto side appears fine where one could easily recover the writing, the verso has had the pink dye bleed through. I'm not sure what this would due to the readability of the text.

 

Anyway, this isn't an available ink. Long long gone, and it was made using dyes that Mr. Tardif couldn't obtain any longer. Also, I'm not sure how well I did on adjusting the color in the images. It was quite difficult to get the right balance of desaturation and color in order to properly present the actual ink.

 

The ink handled well except for the show through and bleed through. There was no staining on either the converter or the barrel of the Pelikan.

 

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Thanks for the review. Yes, this was one of the three LE inks for the 2015 Commonwealth Pen Show (although I think I recall reading that leftover bottles of the LE inks went to the Dallas Pen Show). It's my favorite of the three (King Philip's Requiem is a magenta pink and very eye-searing; Plymouth Woodlands is a medium green and just sort of "there" unless you really like that shade).

Miles Standish is pnot my favorite blue, but it is pretty, and fairly unique a color, so I'm glad I have a bottle. The deal at the show was that you also got a free Charlie pen with every bottle, although I think that wasn't the best pen to put it in -- I had lots of feathering on cheap Piccadilly sketch book paper and the Charlie tended to burp, leaving pink haloed blobs of ink on the page.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

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I know it is an old thread... but.

 

this ink is a pen melter. I am Certain this ink dissolved the piston of a Pelikan (originals of their times 1938) 101N. Also dissolved a rubber sack on a lever filler pen.

 

Lovely ink, with some sheen and shading... but dangerous in some pens.

 

Watch out.!

 

The Pelikan died last year; loaded with ink, it just started leaking.

 

The lever filler pen, was sitting in my drawer for a couple of years, empty, I only discovered the damage recently and from my logs I could tell the last ink used was Standish, around 2017.

 

I moved last year and the only ink bottle that broke in the move was the Standish, I guess I will not miss it !!

 

happy inking!

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Sorry for your experience. I haven't had much success with lever filler pens handling any modern ink, even ones said to be safe. I suspect your vintage Pelikan could be rebuilt. There may well be brave folks here but I eschew using modern inks in vintage pens, especially ones that haven't been rebuilt with modern seals.

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