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I have about 17 bottles of ink. I look at more, but I am slow to spend money. I am just coming out of eight years of paying private college tuition in the US on a teacher's salary. My parsimony toward expenditures for myself is well-ingrained.

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I have 15 bottles, but over half of them are on the smaller side (30 ml bottles from J. Herbin and Diamine).

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Four bottles and a variety of ink cartridges of different brands and colours.

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Well, I just couldn't help myself, and tacked three bottles of Sailor Nano pigment souboku ink to an outstanding order of a dozen (mostly cheap, but specially engraved, Platinum Plaisir) pens.

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I'm not allowed to count. It would scare me.

 

 

Is ok.. Is ok... No need to be scare, the way I see it, if you have more than double digits... then you certainly have a healthy amount and there is no need to count. ;)

 

 

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Hm.

 

Monteverde, 4. Documental and Sapphire Blue 30ml, Purple Reign and Horizon Blue 90ml.

Noodler's, 2. Habanero and Dark Matter.

Higgins, 1. Fountain Pen India.

Pilot, 1. Blue-Black.

J. Herbin, 2. 1670 Rouge Hematite and Emerald of Chivor.

Diamine, 4. Oxblood, Sapphire, Apple Glory, Sherwood.

Platinum, 1. Carbon Black.

 

So 14.

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Twelve I guess. Double that if you count samples.

In order of collection;

  • A bottle of Higgins India Ink I forgot about ten years ago which still seems good.
  • Parker Q-ink Black, Blue (don't sell the red in North America or I'd have the set)
  • Two bottles of differently-formulated homemade Prussian Blue.
  • Windsor & Newton Red, Green, Yellow.
  • Take-Suki, Old Bordeaux, Burnt Umber.
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A Smug Dill Museum Piece

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I have exactly fifty different bottled inks

 

 

Of those, I gave seven away. Also two of the bottles that I bought since August.

 

Now I have with two hundred and five, and one more is on its way; the shipping label for the latter was generated less than 24 hours ago.

 

That's without counting the four never-used empty 50ml Pilot Iroshizuku bottles Engeika sent me a few years back as a giveaway.

 

Astoundingly, they all fit inside the the shelf space under my small-ish desk.

I endeavour to be frank and truthful in what I write, show or otherwise present, when I relate my first-hand experiences that are not independently verifiable; and link to third-party content where I can, when I make a claim or refute a statement of fact in a thread. If there is something you can verify for yourself, I entreat you to do so, and judge for yourself what is right, correct, and valid. I may be wrong, and my position or say-so is no more authoritative and carries no more weight than anyone else's here.

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I think I have enough ink bottles to last me a lifetime of serious writing... About 150 bottles (as an estimate).

 

The problem is that, when I like an ink and it is a limited production, I tend to buy a "supply". For example, one of my favourite inks is Pelikan Edelstein "Amethyst", now long discontinued: with some perseverance (mainly in small Italian pen shops) I have managed to hoard 9 bottles... The Delta brown sepia is wonderful and I managed to obtain about 10 bottles. I have all but 2 of the Iroshizukus, and in the case of my favourites, 3-4 bottles of each...

 

I don't regard it as a "problem" but my family disagrees : (

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257. Four more on order.

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257. Four more on order.

Yeesh. I have about.. fifteen to twenty, I think. I'm not counting my 'play ink' made from inkjet refill ink. Almost everyone in this thread makes me feel both parsimonious and envious.

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48 Unique ones. about 15 duplicates. Why duplicates? Ordered from Indian company. Adding those 15 duplicates costs the same (free shipping quota).

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A Smug Dill Museum Piece

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Ah. How shocking it is to see where I stood in this regard, back in 2018 and then in 2019.

 

Not including the 25 inks in the Diamine Inkvent Red Edition set, I now have 398 different inks in retail bottles. Three more (Cult Pens exclusive Fruit inks by Diamine) are on their way to me, and one (Diamine Sargasso Sea) to be thrown out some time.

 

Then there are 145 ‘spare’ unopened bottles under the guest bed, and one more arriving soon…

I endeavour to be frank and truthful in what I write, show or otherwise present, when I relate my first-hand experiences that are not independently verifiable; and link to third-party content where I can, when I make a claim or refute a statement of fact in a thread. If there is something you can verify for yourself, I entreat you to do so, and judge for yourself what is right, correct, and valid. I may be wrong, and my position or say-so is no more authoritative and carries no more weight than anyone else's here.

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54 minutes ago, A Smug Dill said:

Then there are 145 ‘spare’ unopened bottles under the guest bed, and one more arriving soon…

A second guest bed ?

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