View Poll Results: What is the most popular Esterbrook color?

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  • Black

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  • Dubonnet Red

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  • Brown

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  • Cooper

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  • Fern Green

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  • Foliage Green

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  • Cobalt Blue

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  • Pearl Gray

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Thread: Esterbrook Colors

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    Default Esterbrook Colors

    Out of the various color choices available for Esterbrooks, which color do you think was the most popular?


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    Default Re: Esterbrook Colors

    Personally, I'm quite partial to green and blue.
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    Default Re: Esterbrook Colors

    Cobalt blue, huh? It seems to me more people write about copper lust.

    It seems the only Esterbrooks are J series? Personally I prefer the turquoise of the M2.



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    Default Re: Esterbrook Colors

    Ok, this is really weird...

    Are you actually asking us which colors we like, or which we think, based on some sort of data or observation, were more popular based on sales, etc.?
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    My favourites are blue, red (both the early and late, except maybe I like the early just a bit more), both shades of green and the copper. When those are not my favourite, then it must be the darker brown called root beer. I used to like the grey, but I gave away both my J and SJ, so now I convince myself I did not like them so much, so that I do not miss them. In fact the only one I think is blah is the black, except when it is the battle scarred black of Fester, which is a Frankenpen I made with a brass stud for a jewel, and the Bell Laboratories text scraped off.

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    Default Re: Esterbrook Colors

    Quote Originally Posted by Jon Szanto View Post
    Ok, this is really weird...

    Are you actually asking us which colors we like, or which we think, based on some sort of data or observation, were more popular based on sales, etc.?
    Your own favorite color.


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    Default Re: Esterbrook Colors

    I think the Copper color is the most difficult to obtain.


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    Default Re: Esterbrook Colors

    Quote Originally Posted by southpaw52 View Post
    I think the Copper color is the most difficult to obtain.
    I don't. I think it is the darker brown.

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    Default Re: Esterbrook Colors

    My favorites are the Cobalt Blue and the Dubonnet Red although I suspect the most common was Black.

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    Default Re: Esterbrook Colors

    I was wondering the same thing as Jon.
    The title of the poll seems to be asking one thing but the first post seems to be asking what the _original_ most popular color was, which I can't imagine wasn't black.

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    Default Re: Esterbrook Colors

    I have seen far fewer black than other colors, and I see fewer black offered for sale. I guess the only Esterbrooks are the J series. There are others, though.

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    Quote Originally Posted by pajaro View Post
    I have seen far fewer black than other colors, and I see fewer black offered for sale. I guess the only Esterbrooks are the J series. There are others, though.
    I have never seen a black SJ

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    Default Re: Esterbrook Colors

    Quote Originally Posted by Scrawler View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by pajaro View Post
    I have seen far fewer black than other colors, and I see fewer black offered for sale. I guess the only Esterbrooks are the J series. There are others, though.
    I have never seen a black SJ
    I happen to have a black SJ.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sgtstretch View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Scrawler View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by pajaro View Post
    I have seen far fewer black than other colors, and I see fewer black offered for sale. I guess the only Esterbrooks are the J series. There are others, though.
    I have never seen a black SJ
    I happen to have a black SJ.
    Well now I know they exist

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    Default Re: Esterbrook Colors

    As long as we realize Esterbrook did not name the colors of the J series pens we should be fine.

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    Default Re: Esterbrook Colors

    Quote Originally Posted by Scrawler View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by sgtstretch View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Scrawler View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by pajaro View Post
    I have seen far fewer black than other colors, and I see fewer black offered for sale. I guess the only Esterbrooks are the J series. There are others, though.
    I have never seen a black SJ
    I happen to have a black SJ.
    Well now I know they exist
    Indeed. L-to-R: J, LJ, SJ in black. Well, I call it "black", I have no idea what that party-guy Mr. Esterbrook called it.

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    Default Re: Esterbrook Colors

    Party Guy called it Black.

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    Default Re: Esterbrook Colors

    Quote Originally Posted by Scrawler View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by sgtstretch View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Scrawler View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by pajaro View Post
    I have seen far fewer black than other colors, and I see fewer black offered for sale. I guess the only Esterbrooks are the J series. There are others, though.
    I have never seen a black SJ
    I happen to have a black SJ.
    Well now I know they exist
    I have a black SJ. If you want it I'll send it to you.


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    Default Re: Esterbrook Colors

    Quote Originally Posted by pajaro View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Scrawler View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by sgtstretch View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Scrawler View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by pajaro View Post
    I have seen far fewer black than other colors, and I see fewer black offered for sale. I guess the only Esterbrooks are the J series. There are others, though.
    I have never seen a black SJ
    I happen to have a black SJ.
    Well now I know they exist
    I have a black SJ. If you want it I'll send it to you.
    That is awfully nice of you. It is a good thing my daughter lives away from home now, else she would have it.

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