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J. Herbin - Vert Empire (Perle Des Encres)


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I haven't used it in years. Keep seeing it but grabbing what ever ink I just read about on Thoughts or Reviews that I had to ink a pen.

 

Once it was thought a substitute of the famous....& very hated...MB Racing Green....a major murky shading green.

There was a time on the com, when all things MB but the ink bottles....including their inks were very hated. :headsmack:I was much too 'noobie' to know better, and followed the expertise of the big number guys. :wallbash:

 

Then with in three months of discontinuation of Racing Green, became very beloved. :lticaptd:

Both murky and even shading was little understood back in the dark ages of no view screen on one's handy/cell phone.

 

The advice of the com was buy MB ink for the bottle and toss the ink.....so had racing green in my hand, but was going to toss the ink....so picked a brown having never used a brown ink....very noobie, not knowing the difference between a brown and a sepia. By the time I scraped up E12 and was in the area of my B&M, they were out of racing green.....(I was then in the 'Pen of the Week in the Mail Club :rolleyes:.)

Today three bottles of MB racing green will pay for two years at Harvard or three at Yale.

Edited by Bo Bo Olson

In reference to P. T. Barnum; to advise for free is foolish, ........busybodies are ill liked by both factions.

 

 

The cheapest lessons are from those who learned expensive lessons. Ignorance is best for learning expensive lessons.

 

 

 

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"As you can see, Vert Empire manages to look really nice in all nib sizes, with great contrast and elegant shading"

 

I hate to disagree with such a serious and detailed review(er) but I must, with this statement in the review. Vert Empire absolutely does not produce legible-enough lines with my Pilot 74EF, F and Platinum EF, SF pens. In these pens, the ink turns out very very pale and without all the shading and contrast you mentioned in your review.

 

I really admire and appreciate your reviews and I am going to try out some of the pen-paper combinations you mentioned.

 

I have a bottle of this ink and I have great trouble finding the correct pens for it to put down a legible line. But I love the colour.

 

thank you for taking the trouble to show us different pens and papers with this ink in your very comprehensive review.

 

p.s. my bottle is from 2years ago and possibly produced even earlier. I wonder if Herbin has quietly reformulated its inks to make them all more legible than before.

 

I'm very much aligned to this comment.

I like the colour, I have a bottle probably from 3-4 years ago, but hardly use it as it looks too pale and not easy to read especially from an F nib.

I probably need to give it another go with a B or stub nib, as I do like this murky green shade.

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This was, I think, the first green ink I over bought. I like it, but it fades after a while, especially on poor quality paper.

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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  • 1 year later...

Loved this ink in my dry Penbbs pens...it had the beautiful grey-green shading.
But in my Opus-88 SODF Flex pen that is far wetter...it comes out very dark...super dark green.
I've ordered "Sailor ink studio - #162" in order to get that beautiful grey-green shade ink back...

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