A Kind Of Royal Blue

[mke]

Has anyone of you the Otto Hutt or the Waldmann blue ink?

They are more on the dry side, slightly purple - a very nice everyday ink, much nicer than Pelikan RB.

IMO, these inks look similar to identical.

Both companies do certainly not make their own ink. So the question is, who makes them?

Otto Hutt Blue looks like

 

Edited July 18, 2019 by mke

[mke]

It is possible that Pacific Blue of Seitz-Kreuznach is also of similar color, at least their cartridges look like.

I found several reviews - one of them shows a purplish blue, the other a blue-blue. Judging from the cartridge, there must be purple in it.

And "Made in Austria" on their package points to that mysterious maker of ink, Sellner.

 

Edited July 18, 2019 by mke

[lapis]

I bought a 30-ml bottle of Waldmann blue in May 2012 for 17.00 Euros. The label doesn't say "Royal Blue", or any other blue or even just "Blue". The label says only

Waldman

-GERMANY-

A 30-ml bottle of Pelikan 4001 Königsblau/Royal Blue -- in exactly the same shape -- at that time came in at about 4.25 Euros.

The bottle of Waldmann didn't come in a box, and the bottom of the bottle doesn't indicate anything, whereas the bottom of the 4001 bottle says in raised lettering on the glass

78 04

GERMANY

30 ml 1 fl.oz.

Instead of the usual black plastic cap with a pelikan on it (for the 4001 bottle), the Waldmann cap consists of a heavy, polished stainless steel or chromed metal version.

The following is an old shot of a chromatography of the 4001 Royal Blue (to the left), the Cross Blue and, to the right the Waldmann blue.

In that chromatogram, it's hard to tell if they are all identical but the following sketch seems to indicate that the 4001 and the Waldmann blue are in fact "the same".

In this scan, the saturation seems to vary here and there, but to me, the degree of purpleness looks the same. In any case, on paper they have the same amount of wetness, drying time, feathering, bleeding and shading.

Whew