What Is Your Favorite Ink Based Only On The Bottle It Is Sold In?

[canibanoglu]

The regular (new) MB shoes and/or the new GvFC bottles , both just because of the quality of the caps. Ditto the new CdAs, although I find their bottles and boxes a bit weird....

 

Mike

Thank you for that! I'm not the only one who thinks the cap on the MB bottles is the most sexy part of the bottle.

[Bookman]

Even in plastic I prefer the Visconti bottle. The little sub-reservoir at the bottom comes in handy. For a similar reason I like Montblanc. Omas gets a handshake and a "well done" for effort. (Attention, Sailor: How long is this going to drag on? Stop the madness! Enough with the jars already.)

[alarickc]

Sailor's tall bottle used for the Bespoke inks made for stationary shops in Japan are my favorite. Not because I like them better than some of the other top-flight bottles(Akkerman, Caran D'Ache, Montblanc, Iro), but because the tall Sailor bottles look the smartest when lined up in a row of twenty. So much pretty glass......

[SujiCorp12345]

The regular (new) MB shoes and/or the new GvFC bottles , both just because of the quality of the caps. Ditto the new CdAs, although I find their bottles and boxes a bit weird....

 

Mike

I forgot about the GvFC bottles! Those look great as well for sure.

[I like mango cheesecake]

Caran d'Ache Colours of the Earth crystal bottles. I don't really like the colour that much (Sunset), but the bottle is so cool!!!!!!! Got it from our local B&M pen store

 

Also picked up a Iroshizuku bottle as well. It was that little tassle on the bottle that did it for me.

[The Good Captain]

Any Pelikan 4001 62.5ml bottle. About the best you can get at a really good price.

[Jared]

Functionality: Vintage Sheaffer Skrip with ink reservoir, or Montblanc shoe

 

Beauty + Functionality: Pilot Iroshizuku

 

Waiting to try: Akkerman...

[sandy101]

I like the J Herbin bottles because of the functionality of the lip on the shoulder of the bottle. It gives you somewhere to rest your newly inked pen whilst you screw the cap back on the bottle and retrieve the piece of kitchen roll you'd set aside to wipe the nib, which the cat got hold of somehow.

[brunico]

Rohrer&Klinger, I love the pharmacy type bottles, very simple yet a lot more effective than many other bottles out there.

 

Yes, and attractive labels, too. They look more like art supplies than stationery, not surprising given the company's history.

 

R&K, te iubesc

 

Regular Sailor bottles for me, too: pleasingly simple, with possibly undeniably the world's best ink inside, not like these others that are all fur coat and no knickers.

[Runnin_Ute]

Both Levenger (50 ml) and Pelikan for their 4001 (62.5 ml) one inks are great bottles.

[Nek]

I love the Iroshizuku bottles.

 

+1 for me.

 

I also like the Mont Blanc ink bottles too.

[zepp]

Caran d'Ache ink bottles, they are slanted!

[tonybelding]

Parker Penman.

 

Even though it's long out of production, I still have a few of the bottles here, and I've transferred some of my most-used inks into them.

 

[napalm]

Iroshizuku. It also happens that they carry my fav ink too - Asa Gao. It can't get any better than this

[smiorgan]

Actually I know Diamine is relatively cheap and it's the ink I have the most of, but I really really like their bottles. Something about the chunkiness of the cap, the proportions of mouth to the rest of the bottle, the curved shoulders and the fact that it has a square footprint. Diamine satisfies all my needs for ink both colour-wise and in the aesthetics of the bottle.

 

(the 30ml ones are a pain, though)

 

I really like the little tins my Herbin cartridges came in though.

[scannon18]

Really, I guess the Diamine bottles are ok. It's the box they are kept in. I always keep my ink bottles in their boxes to avoid UV exposure. The Diamine box is so big, black, and ugly next to the J. Hebin and even the Waterman inks. They need to redesign their box, make it smaller to fit the bottle better and give it a more square than rectangle appearance.

[Tasmith]

Pelikan 4001 50ml bottle with the pen rest. Bought the Royal Blue and Brilliant Black even though I already had them in the regular Pelikan 62.5ml bottles.

 

I agree, the cap on my Permanent Blue 60ml shoe is awesome. I can feel the each design element individually. I even like the box it came in, so well thought out!

Edited June 15, 2014 by Tasmith

[Algester]

if permanent black caters to my taste then yes MBPB will also be on my list but right now MB mystery black s kind of meh but wait what's this our local MB botique has not heard of the permanent inks (blue and black) in the market...

Edited June 16, 2014 by Algester

[vicki92]

+1 on Akkerman. Beautiful bottles.

 

I also really like the Visconti bottles (though would prefer it if they were glass) and the J. Herbin 1670 bottles. Lovely!

[VivienR]

From what I own: both are J. Herbin: the Heart bottle, and the 1670's bottle. But I also have some interests about Caran d'Ache and Iroshizuku bottles.