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Aurora Blue is another regular fountainpen ink that works great on Moleskine paper.I bought this bottle at Art Brown International Penshop. This shop has a lot of ink. And from what I heard on forum's it has a lot of expertise. On my blog Inkyjournal you'll find bigger pictures.

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Color

This ink has a great blue color. Not to much or to little. Just plain blue. Not light blue or dark blue. Just a blue you want for your everyday use.

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Writing

It is a real working horse. I took my new (uninked) Lamy Safari White Limited Edition, started writing and was amazed. Next to Noodler's Black this was the smoothest writing ink I ever tried.

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The good part is that it does not bleedtrough on Moleskine paper. The paper and book I use every single day of the year.

 

Written review

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In the written review I wrote:

"Thursday, september 3, 2009

 

I filled my Lamy Safari (fine) with Aurora Blue ink.

 

I was told this ink behaved very well on Moleskine paper. The ink shows a little bit of feathering, but it is a great ink to wrote with. Smooth as butter.

 

Color is blue as one expects it to be. On Moleskinepaper the ink is a quick dryer.

 

The ink has no visible shading and does not bleed trough this Moleskinepaper.

 

Great working ink!

 

Woodworker"

 

Moleskinefriendly?

Yep I can give this ink a thumbs up for 100% Moleskine-friendly-fountainpen-ink.

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The Aurora pen company was formed in 1919 in Turin, Italy. Their line of fountain pen inks consists of only two colors, but they are two of the most vibrant and true colors we have found thus far! The black is one of the darkest, a true black and the blue is a rich, deep royal blue.

 

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I got some Aurora Blue recently and quite like it as well. It lubricates nicely and it's an interesting color, as well, not just bog-standard blue.

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Montegrappa NeroUno Linea - J. Herbin Poussière de Lune //. Aurora Optima Demonstrator - Aurora Black // Varuna Rajan - Kaweco Green // TWSBI Vac 700R - Visconti Purple

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It is a real working horse. I took my new (uninked) Lamy Safari White Limited Edition, started writing and was amazed. Next to Noodler's Black this was the smoothest writing ink I ever tried.

 

Just try Aurora black and Namiki black... or blue...

 

Nice review, thanks...

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Woodworker, thank you for a very nice review! I like your blog, too.

May you have pens you enjoy, with plenty of paper and ink. :)

Please use only my FPN name "Gran" in your posts. Thanks very much!

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Wonderful, wonderful ink. And don't let anyone tell you it has purple in it. Rubbish! It's all beautiful, smooth flowing blue, baby!

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Looks like they've changed the label. The old style made it

difficult to distinguish black from blue. The new one's not

as classy but far more functional.

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PenTieRun :happyberet:

 

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Just tried it with a 1.5 Lamy Joy (dipped only) nib and a Bercontra no.37 'flexi'/maxi-semi-flex F on a 1950 Columbus (Italian) pen.

Such a wonderful purple blue ink. :roflmho:

 

Don't know what paper it was; it landed in my printer as not good enough to write on even though it should have been.

Purplish blue, more than I get out of DA Royal Blue a blue ink that tinges toward Purple....not inked right now.

MB Meisterstuck, a blue with touch towards Turquoise. Lamy fairly light blue. Parker sapphire was a bit darker than expected...could be has been drying out.

 

On, the first good paper I could grab.

Southworth 24 pound Linen, 25 % cotton Ivory, ...most a difference between Parker Sapphire than the Aurora.

 

Halogen light makes a different color, so I took it to a room with LED light, no change still a nice blue ink with some purple.

 

I am happy with it.

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This is one ink that just seems to work well in any pen. I don't even mind the purple shade.

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Nice review and thanks especially for the link to your blog....

Oh, great, another obsession.

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Did not seem excessively wet, don't have Aurora black. (got some 50 inks)

 

I'd heard it wasn't as wet, so was not looking for a wet ink, and didn't notice it as a wet ink.

 

Waterman is now a medium. instead of a wet ink it was four years ago...with some Noodler inks being the measure now for wet.

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