Montblanc With Compliments from the Manufacture

[agentdaffy007]

Hi,

 

I bought a new MB 149P OBBB and the AD knew that I have pretty much all the inks he has in stock. He decided to gift me a bottle that for sure I would not have since it is not for sale. He told me that when he went to Hamburg in 2019, Montblanc gifted him a couple of bottles of this blue ink.

 

Beautiful color, nice lubrication, has some water resistance and the shading is amazing! I think I am in love with this ink.

 

Did Montblanc ever released an ink close to this color?

[LizEF]

Nice shading!  Thanks for the review.

[mizgeorge]

I wonder if it's a pre-release of Petrol (which was the colour of the year in 2020), and is also very close to the new 'around the world' blue. The timing might make sense?

[Bo Bo Olson]

Looks a bit light to be MB Diamond, I think...not used much by me, but that was 5-6 years ago. Originally I liked it enough to buy a second bottle, but stopped liking it for some reason.

 

It is a Limited Ink bottle.

Do look up the colors of what MB inks were released in the last 5 years to go with each writer edition pens. .

..Though I have two LE in different bottles  for pens from 5-6 years ago that  I didn't buy.

[agentdaffy007]

1 hour ago, Bo Bo Olson said:

Looks a bit light to be MB Diamond, I think...not used much by me, but that was 5-6 years ago. Originally I liked it enough to buy a second bottle, but stopped liking it for some reason.

 

It is a Limited Ink bottle.

Do look up the colors of what MB inks were released in the last 5 years to go with each writer edition pens. .

..Though I have two LE in different bottles  for pens from 5-6 years ago that  I didn't buy.

 

I had a bottle of MB Diamond and it is not the same color. I am just thinking that this bottle has no twin.

[bunnspecial]

I posted this in your thread on the MB forum. I'd want to see a sample in person, but depending on how exactly it leans I'm thinking Tolstoy or Petrol/80 Days blue.

 

[Bo Bo Olson]

Look to see what blue inks were issued  from 2018 to 2019. Perhaps even a couple years before.

Bunnspecial, you have a hell of a collection of \MB blue inks,

 

When was Maya blue issued?

[agentdaffy007]

It's hard to tell. I would need to swab it to get a good idea of the color.

[bunnspecial]

4 hours ago, Bo Bo Olson said:

Look to see what blue inks were issued  from 2018 to 2019. Perhaps even a couple years before.

Bunnspecial, you have a hell of a collection of \MB blue inks,

 

When was Maya blue issued?

 

That's not all of them. I left out the more ordinary ones like washable and permanent blue as well as the blue-blacks(even though JFK leans that way) and I think there's one or two more LEs in that range.

 

Maya Blue was part of "The Blue Palette" from I think 2019. There were 6 inks in the series and a few of them are in the photos above-Maya Blue, Egyptian Blue, Turquoise, Lapis Lazuli, Chinese Blue, and Ultramarine. I bought Maya, Egyptian, and Ultramarine as part of a 3 ink boxed set. I don't have Chinese Blue or Turquoise from that collection.

[yazeh]

Thanks for the review 👍

[Bo Bo Olson]

OP's was one of the two that I know of bottles for special or LE's The one for Johnathan Swift and Collodi are  in different bottles from my diamond....it was only two bottles of Diamond....that looked like the OP's. I had seen others in similar bottles that I'd not cared for from the reviews....before the big price jump. ..now there is no ink that good....a tiny bit of ink for E35..

The others are 4-5 bottles of different bottled old Christmas inks.

Not counting the usual suspects. And the old Sepia.

 

I don't remember what Miles Davis, the orange and yellow bottles looked like...Square like the OP's but much shallower with near an inch of glass on the bottom.

He at least got a full little square bottle not  a half empty designer glass.

 

The wife won something at a live auction and bought last mentioned  inks at my B&M that I'd not....at least the inks are in old C'dA sized bottles so I can use them up faster.

Those three are not scheduled for my pyramid.

[bunnspecial]

20 hours ago, Bo Bo Olson said:

OP's was one of the two that I know of bottles for special or LE's The one for Johnathan Swift and Collodi are  in different bottles from my diamond....it was only two bottles of Diamond....

 

The cube bottles like this seem the norm for a lot of LEs these days. There is a 30mL and a 50mL version, and the OP's seems a 30mL.

 

The other LE bottle I know of that's been used in the past few years is a round 35mL bottle. Of the LEs I have, Tolstoy, Shakespeare, and Permanent Gray are in this style bottle. I actually like the round bottles as they generally have a full label with the name of the ink and some decoration. The Cubes generally get a label just like the one on the OP's bottle with the color(blue, green, etc-nothing more specific than that), made in Austria, and a bit of other information. I leave Cubes in their box, which fortunately is normally a nice little square/rectangular box with a pull out drawer.

[The Mustard]

Elvis and Homer are other recent LE blues that could have been added. As soon as I saw the sample I thought of the Jules Verne but not certain…

 

Funnily enough I used the Kipling ink today from another 30ml cube and had forgotten how much I like it, I’d remembered it to be a seaweed green similar to Swift but it’s a much ‘bluer’ green and all the better for it.