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3 hours ago, essayfaire said:

Touché! But if we consider how many pages of writing we can get from a single bottle of ink... 

 

 

It will fill up more than those bookcases.  :)

 

Fountain pens are my preferred COLOR DELIVERY SYSTEM (in part because crayons melt in Las Vegas).

Create a Ghostly Avatar and I'll send you a letter. Check out some Ink comparisons: The Great PPS Comparison 

Don't know where to start?  Look at the Inky Topics O'day.  Then, see inks sorted by color: Blue Purple Brown Red Green Dark Green Orange Black Pinks Yellows Blue-Blacks Grey/Gray UVInks Turquoise/Teal MURKY

 

 

 

 

 

 

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I have my inks in a box, so not really visible, but I will choose some bottles on a rotation to display them at my computer desk depending on what I've been writing with.

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My ink collection has a new home.

@Daela is starting the display. Here is the first part.

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Fountain pens are my preferred COLOR DELIVERY SYSTEM (in part because crayons melt in Las Vegas).

Create a Ghostly Avatar and I'll send you a letter. Check out some Ink comparisons: The Great PPS Comparison 

Don't know where to start?  Look at the Inky Topics O'day.  Then, see inks sorted by color: Blue Purple Brown Red Green Dark Green Orange Black Pinks Yellows Blue-Blacks Grey/Gray UVInks Turquoise/Teal MURKY

 

 

 

 

 

 

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4 hours ago, amberleadavis said:

My ink collection has a new home.

@Daela is starting the display. Here is the first part.

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Philip Marlowe, is that your office?

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1 hour ago, lamarax said:

 

Philip Marlowe, is that your office?

 

We will have to ask @Daela

Fountain pens are my preferred COLOR DELIVERY SYSTEM (in part because crayons melt in Las Vegas).

Create a Ghostly Avatar and I'll send you a letter. Check out some Ink comparisons: The Great PPS Comparison 

Don't know where to start?  Look at the Inky Topics O'day.  Then, see inks sorted by color: Blue Purple Brown Red Green Dark Green Orange Black Pinks Yellows Blue-Blacks Grey/Gray UVInks Turquoise/Teal MURKY

 

 

 

 

 

 

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So....  Inks on the upper shelves and what look like record albums -- and stored correctly at that (according to what my mom told me years ago, anyway).  

Very nice!

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

"It's very nice, but frankly, when I signed that list for a P-51, what I had in mind was a fountain pen."

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12 hours ago, amberleadavis said:

My ink collection has a new home.

Nice! :) 

And welcome back! You were missed!

One life!

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On 2/12/2025 at 5:17 PM, amberleadavis said:

 

We will have to ask @Daela

Not Philip's home office. It's my spare room and the first of many (many, MANY) shelves going up to display Amber's immense collection :) 

 

I think they look nice above the record shelves!

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I keep mine mainly in the secretary that used to be my grandparents'; a few are on my desk at work.  Judging by some of the pictures I've seen in here, I'm an absolute ink amateur... XD

"Well, believe me, I calculated the odds of this succeeding versus the odds I was doing something incredibly stupid... and I went ahead anyway."

--Crow T. Robot, Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie

 

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11 hours ago, trdsf said:

I keep mine mainly in the secretary that used to be my grandparents'; a few are on my desk at work.  Judging by some of the pictures I've seen in here, I'm an absolute ink amateur... XD

We do like pictures....LOL

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Meteorologists around here refer to this bit of spring as "green-up" -- when plants sprout and trees leaf so quickly that they are able to absorb a surprising amount of rainwater. This winter has been an "ink-up" for me, but my old storage system, a chiyogami paper-covered box on my desk, could no longer absorb all the bottles.

 

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So I've added a small set of Bisley drawers to my closet, which work very well; the three-drawer unit has enough interior height to hold Iroshizuku bottles, though it can't QUITE fit Robert Oster (of which I have only one bottle), and certainly not Akkerman, but those don't fit in the desktop box either. Now that box will hold bottles of ink currently in pens, or in a very immediate queue, with (bonus!) some space left for much-used tools, the typewritter ribbon boxes in which I store nibs, and so on.

 

(I use a white glass/ceramic marker to label the cap tops of bottles so I can find things without rooting around; doesn't work for Teranishi inks, which have their logo printed on a silver cap top, but at least the labels of those reflect the color of the ink, so as long as I can see a sliver of label, I can tell what's what.)

 

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