Ink at the Heart of a Fountain Pen
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This ink is a collaboration between Mont Blanc and James Purdey & Sons the very very expensive British bespoke sporting guns and rifles. I was not sure how guns would link to a a cigar. However, the last collaboration was ‘single malt’ and I do get the link between a single malt and a cigar. I bought this ink from Appelboom in the Netherlands – they were $20 cheaper a bottle than buying directly from Mont Blanc.
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My penultimate shimmer ink from Diamine – Arctic blue and WOW!. Paint manufacturers describe this colour as a light breezy bay blue with a twilight blue undertone - whatever that means. I suspect the colour is simply because the blue is similar to the blue of the arctic.
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