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My Ink Collection: 1091 Bottles and 47 Litres of Ink (2019)

December 11, 2018 in Ink Discussion

A year and a half ago I wrote about my then collection of 637 Bottles and 33.47 Litres of Ink and now, moving into 2019 and after cracking 1,000 thanks to my recent purchase of all 100 Sailor Ink Studio inks (from Pen Classics) I thought was a good time to give an update to the collection.

What has changed

Since mid 2017 to the beginning of end of 2018 the main difference is Sailor. Sailor as gone up a lot; in fact it has almost tripled (105 ⇨ 302). Robert Oster has climbed a decent amount (81 ⇨ 139) as well as Diamine (84 ⇨ 114) and Noodler’s (92 ⇨ 116). Montblanc hasn't moved much but Krishna has gone from 0 ⇨ 29 and Colorverse from 0 ⇨ 18! Overall the number of bottles has gone up 70% but the amount of ink as a fluid (which was 33.47L and is now 47.6L) has only gone up 42.2% This represents a lot more smaller bottles being bought due in part because of Krishna’s 20ml but mainly Sailor’s Ink Studio which are all 20ml bottles. Colorverse is another newcomer I’ve jumped with just over half of which are small 15ml bottles.

There are now 12 new brands to the collection, which is surprisingly few, (from 41 to 53) 10 of these are Asian inks, one is Nick Stewart (which is made by Diamine) and, I believe, Kaweco.

The Collection

You can see all the inks on on my Fountain Pen Companion page. I’m actually starting to run out of space! I don’t particularly like using the bottom shelves or the top of the cabinet for Oster and Bungubox inks plus getting access half the inks of Sailor, Montblanc, or Diamine means pulling out half the shelf (not to mention the mess that is the shelf 2nd from the bottom and 2nd from the left)! The very definition of a first world problem, I understand.

All inks (minus those in the post)

Unlike last time I have not grouped all the single bottle brands into one “Miscellaneous” grouping. I wanted to show everything.

I am also conservatively counting all Sailor Store Exclusives as under the Sailor branding here and not under the store branding (contrary to what I’m doing with Nick Stewart, or Akkerman SBRE Brown which are made by Diamine). I’m doing this to get a better birds eye picture of the collection. If I did split up all the Sailor brands (which I do outside of this) the “Sailor” would split into 37 brands (most with only one or two inks) which would just look unwieldy in the already long list.

Brand No. of Bottles
Sailor 302
Robert Oster 139
Noodler’s 116
Diamine 114
Montblanc 53
Krishna 29
KWZ 29
Pelikan 26
Organics Studio 22
J. Herbin 19
Colorverse 18
Private Reserve 16
Rohrer & Klingner 16
Blackstone 15
Stationary TAG 15
Pilot 14
Lamy 13
Parker 10
Bookbinders 9
De Atramentis 9
Monteverde 9
Caran d’Ache 8
Akkerman 7
Carpink 7
OMAS 7
Graf von Faber-Castell 6
L’Artisan Pastellier 6
Franklin-Christoph 5
Papier Plume 4
Toucan 4
Van Dieman’s 4
Visconti 4
Aurora 3
Louis Vuitton 3
Platinum 3
Sheaffer 3
Ancient Song 2
Camlin 2
Hero 2
Ink Institute 2
Waterman 2
3-Oysters 1
Anata Brand 1
Chesterfield 1
Cross 1
Diplomat 1
Dream Ink 1
Hakase 1
Kaweco 1
Montegrappa 1
Nick Stewart 1
PenBBS 1
Wancher 1

The Colours

I've not been buying blues as much so percentage of blue inks has gone down. Including all blues (excluding purples and teals) then blues still account for over 30% which is only slightly down from mid 2017 (so other blues I’ve still been buying!). I’ve changed up the colour names a little from last year so it is, unfortunately, not a like-for-like comparison. Browns being that high is a surprise to me but it does include orange browns which I love and green browns which I have a soft spot for notwithstanding that it is the worlds ugliest colour…

The colour names, I should say, are rough. I haven’t scientifically colour coded these at all. A few of these might be in the wrong category. They are close enough for me, however.

The little white sliver is the 0.1% for Noodler’s Whiteness of the Whale!

Colours Percentage of Collection No. of Bottles
Blue 15.7% 158
Brown, Dark Brown, Green Brown, Orange Brown, Pink Brown, Purple Brown, Red Brown, Yellow Brown 12.5% 126
Green, Dark Green, Light Green, Yellow Green 10.8% 109
Blue Black/Dark Blue/Dark Teal 10.2% 103
Purple, Dark Purple, Lavender, Light Purple, 9.1% 92
Red/Dark Red/Light Red/Maroon 7.4% 74
Orange, Dark Orange, 5.4% 54
Light Blue/Turquoise/Light Teal 5.3% 53
Pink/Pink Orange 4.3% 43
Black 3.7% 37
Teal 3.6% 36
Grey, Blue Grey, Taupe, Purple Grey, Pink Grey, Green Grey 3.2% 32
Burgundy 3.2% 32
Yellow/Dark Yellow 2.3% 23
Dark Pink/Magenta 1.7% 17
Blue Purple 1.6% 16
White 0.1% 1

The Numbers

Statistics
Inks 1091 100% of the collection
Duplicates 82 7.5% of the collection
Discontinued Inks 115 10.5% of the collection
Sailor Tall Bottles 60 5.5% of the collection
Samples 56
Brands 53
Total Millilitre 46993.5ML
Total Litre 47L/12.42gal
Average Millilitre 43.1ml/1.46fl oz (down from 52.54ml)

The Shelves

I probably should have dusted more! 😮

These shelves get messed up pretty quickly as when I need an ink I tend not to put it back in the correct spot. There are also some messier shelves than others and some emptier shelves. I try to keep them grouped by region a little. Japanese inks are together, US inks are together, European inks are together (Italian on their own) and non-Japanese Asian inks are together. I’m running out of space to keep these looking clean and well organised though.

View fullsize Sailor Tall (and 'vintage') bottles
Sailor Tall (and 'vintage') bottles
View fullsize Sailor Ink Studio
Sailor Ink Studio
View fullsize Sailor Ink Studio
Sailor Ink Studio
View fullsize Sailor Bungubox (Short)
Sailor Bungubox (Short)
View fullsize Sailor Jentle & other Japanese
Sailor Jentle & other Japanese
View fullsize Kobe, Sailor Short Bottles & Pilot
Kobe, Sailor Short Bottles & Pilot
View fullsize Kobe, Sailor Short Bottles & Pilot
Kobe, Sailor Short Bottles & Pilot
View fullsize Robert Oster
Robert Oster
View fullsize Montblanc and Louis Vuitton
Montblanc and Louis Vuitton
View fullsize Noodler's
Noodler's
View fullsize Noodler's, Private Reserve, & OS
Noodler's, Private Reserve, & OS
View fullsize Akkerman (at the back)
Akkerman (at the back)
View fullsize Diamine
Diamine
View fullsize KWZ & Pelikan
KWZ & Pelikan
View fullsize Lamy, DA, R&K, GvFC, & Diplomat
Lamy, DA, R&K, GvFC, & Diplomat
View fullsize J. Herbin, Cd'A, Waterman, L'Artisan P.
J. Herbin, Cd'A, Waterman, L'Artisan P.
View fullsize Sheaffer, Parker, Krishna, MV, F-C & PP
Sheaffer, Parker, Krishna, MV, F-C & PP
View fullsize OMAS, Visconti, Aurora, Kaweco & Montegrappa
OMAS, Visconti, Aurora, Kaweco & Montegrappa
View fullsize Colorverse
Colorverse
View fullsize Bookbinders
Bookbinders
View fullsize Toucan, Van Dieman's & Blackstone
Toucan, Van Dieman's & Blackstone
View fullsize Camlin, Hero, Dream Ink, Carpink, Ancient Song, & Ink Institute
Camlin, Hero, Dream Ink, Carpink, Ancient Song, & Ink Institute

Onwards and upwards?

I don’t want to say I’ll slow down now (because predictions like that are foolish) but I suspect I might (least committed phrase ever!). I’m eager to get more Chinese inks, Taccia inks and to continue to dive into Sailor. Will still grab limited editions of Montblanc when they pop up and same with some other brands.

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Tags: Sailor, Robert Oster, Noodler's Ink, Noodler's, Diamine, Montblanc, Krishna Ink, KWZ, Pelikan, Organics Studio, J. Herbin, Colorverse, Private Reserve, Rohrer & Klingner, Blackstone, Stationery TAG, Pilot, Lamy, Parker, Bookbinders Online, De Atramentis, Monteverde, caran d'ache, Akkerman, Carpink, OMAS, Graf von Faber-Castell, L'Artisan Pastellier, Franklin-Christoph, Papier Plume, Toucan, Van Dieman's, Visconti, Aurora, Louis Vuitton, Platinum, Sheaffer, Ancient Song, Camlin, Hero, Ink Institute, Waterman, 3•Oysters, Anata Brand, Chesterfield, Cross, Diplomat, Dream Ink, Hakase, Kaweco, Montegrappa, Nick Stewart, PenBBS
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