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Hello Good People, As mentioned in my previous pen review, I had a couple of inks lined up for review that as far as I could tell had not made an appearance on this august site as yet. Blow me down if a day or so after promising that, Visvamitra reviewed this very ink, so I've waiting a week or so before posting. I was given a sample of this ink by RedDingo at a recent meet-up of like-minded pen nuts in Brisbane, who was given a bottle to distribute samples for people to try. This is an interesting ink, if only for its one extreme property, which I'll discuss after the review below: The colour looks a little washed out on my screen, but in reality is quite saturated. It's a darkish green-khaki shade. The downside to this ink, which does have a very pleasant fragrance, is that it has a tendency to migrate and dry out. This is what I mean: The picture of the nib of the Waterman Kultur was after around four days of not using the pen. Visvamitra mentioned in his review that the nib tended to get a bit cruddy. That's a gross understatement from my experience. The little pot was used to store the sample given to me, and unfortunately got knocked onto it's side in my ink box. Despite supposedly being water-tight, that was the result. I also found ink had leeched from the cartridge converter into the barrel of the pen. This ink just doesn't want to stay put. [Having said that, there was no evidence of problems with the other pen I tried the ink in, a good old reliable Pilot 78G with an F nib.]