Ink Review: Cult Pens (Diamine) Platinum Jubilee shimmer ink

[Chrissy]

Today I'm reviewing Cult Pens Platinum Jubilee ink, one of their latest exclusive inks made by Diamine. This is one of only two inks in this series, the other being Coronation.

This is an unsaturated blue ink with silver shimmer that was issued to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth 11 that was celebrated during June 2022.

It didn’t suffer from any hard starts or non-starts when I put the uncapped pen down to do swab tests, dry times and water resistance.
I found no start-up problems after leaving the pen overnight.
It dried quite quickly on most of my papers used and once dry it didn’t smudge or smear.

I saw a very small amount of show through and bleed through on my Xerox 120gsm smooth, coated paper.

The silver shimmer is much more visible when using pens with broader nibs and good flow on smooth papers where it doesn’t soak in immediately.

These two celebration inks are sold in Diamine 50ml Inkvent style glass bottles with feet.

• Flow Rate: Good - quite wet.
• Lubrication: Good -smooth.
• Nib Dry-out: Not noticed.
• Start-up: Immediate.
• Saturation: Unsaturated ink.
• Shading Potential: Some shading seen.
• Sheen: None noticed
• Show through/Bleed through : Some seen on a few of the papers I used.
• Spread / Feathering / Woolly Line: Not seen.
• Nib Creep / “Crud”: Not seen.
• Staining (pen): Not seen after several days in the pen. Easy clean-up with warm water.
• Staining (hands): Clean after one wash.
• Clogging: Not seen. Seems unlikely.
• Water resistance: Not sold as waterproof and has little water resistance.
• Availability: 50ml glass Inkvent style bottles exclusively available from Cult Pens, UK.

My thanks to Diamine for sending me this sample to review.

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Photo showing shimmer.

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[LizEF]

Thanks, Chrissy, for another thorough review. This ink is on the edge of colors I would like, but since I'm unlikely to order from Cult Pens, it's moot. Still enjoy your review, though! Very nice chroma on this one.

[Chrissy]

Thanks, Chrissy, for another thorough review. This ink is on the edge of colors I would like, but since I'm unlikely to order from Cult Pens, it's moot. Still enjoy your review, though! Very nice chroma on this one.

You're very welcome.

[Yazeh]

Excellent review This seems like a lovely muted blue. Is that due to the Silver shimmer?

[Chrissy]

Excellent review This seems like a lovely muted blue. Is that due to the Silver shimmer?

You're very welcome. Yes the silver shimmer sets to give this a muted greyish surface effect as well as the silver. I still have to take a photo and add it on.

[Chrissy]

This ink is on the edge of colors I would like, but since I'm unlikely to order from Cult Pens, it's moot.

I was first shown these two inks by my friends in Houston TX. I know that Cult Pens probably need a high spend for P&P to be free for US buyers but they regularly have sales and their prices on some items are the best we can find here in the UK. You never know, it might be worth an occasional look to do a comparison if you want something specific as you could be surprised. Currently they have 10% off of Pelikan and when I checked out the price of their replacement nibs I couldn't beat it anywhere. I would be interested to compare the US cost of a 14ct nib for a Pelikan M400.

[Yazeh]

Excellent review This seems like a lovely muted blue. Is that due to the Silver shimmer?

You're very welcome. Yes the silver shimmer sets to give this a muted greyish surface effect as well as the silver. I still have to take a photo and add it on.

Looking forward to it.

[Chrissy]

Photo combination now added that hopefully shows up some shimmer.

[Yazeh]

Photo combination now added that hopefully shows up some shimmer.

Nice!