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leaning towards red – 15 inks

This started as a red-only colour chart, since I haven’t done that before, but as I made the colour samples I felt I wanted some reference colours, so I added yellow, orange, cerise/pink, purple and a dark blue as references and … Continue reading

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Montblanc 144 from the 1950’s – a find

My Montblanc 144 from the 1950’s arrived from the pen doctor in Edinburgh today. I had the luck to find this for a very pleasant pricetag a while ago. The only problem was that it needed a new piston cork. … Continue reading

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