guess the ink!

[Darla]

Noodler's Black Swan in Australian Roses? although I think this is probably too dark...

[Yazeh]

Thanks for encouragement ladies...
None of the above though....
Black Swan is really pink... this goes in the muted/ pastel family....

[Darla]

Birmingham Raspberry Rain?

[Yazeh]

I don't do, Birmingham Darla. That's Dr. P. Shipping is cost prohibitive to Canada

[Darla]

I don't do, Birmingham Darla. That's Dr. P. Shipping is cost prohibitive to Canada

Really? Wow, I would have thought it was easily available across all of North America!

[Yazeh]

I don't do, Birmingham Darla. That's Dr. P. Shipping is cost prohibitive to Canada

Really? Wow, I would have thought it was easily available across all of North America!

Unfortunately not. While there are trade agreements. it's not like Europe.

Actually I checked again. It's 20US$. But still...

[Darla]

I don't do, Birmingham Darla. That's Dr. P. Shipping is cost prohibitive to Canada

Really? Wow, I would have thought it was easily available across all of North America!

Unfortunately not. While there are trade agreements. it's not like Europe.

Actually I checked again. It's 20US$. But still...

Not exactly cheap, no...

[mizgeorge]

Noodler's Mata Hari's Cordial?

[Yazeh]

Noodler's Mata Hari's Cordial?

Bravo! Indeed it is....
I was going to give a hint that is somehow related to Darla.... but then you got it...




P.S. Mata Hari was a Dutch dancer and a "spy". She was executed by a French firing squad 1917.. they needed badly a scapegoat... as they were doing bad in the war...

[Darla]

Excellent job, mizgeorge! I was almost headed for Scabiosa but I never would have guessed this one! Nice color, Yazeh!

[DrPenfection]

Great job, mizgeorge!

And thank you for presenting this great ink, Yazeh!

So what is the significance of Mata Hari's Cordial? Does it somehow relate to her as a "spy"?

[Yazeh]

Great job, mizgeorge!

And thank you for presenting this great ink, Yazeh!

So what is the significance of Mata Hari's Cordial? Does it somehow relate to her as a "spy"?

I scoured the internet but I couldn't find anything about any cordial Dr. P. .
I know she was an exotic dancer and a courtesan... and did some lacklustre spy work. But nothing worth being executed for.
There was some controversy about the artwork on the ink bottle. The artist gave her a much ample bosom than she ever had... But that's another story....

[Darla]

I also did a little searching, thinking maybe she used alcohol to seduce her targets or something like that. But I didn't find anything. The only thing I did find is that there is a cocktail invented at a modern 'speakeasy' in New York called the Mata Hari and it did sort of look like it had that same type of color. But that's just a guess.

[DrPenfection]

Thank you both! Perhaps it is just a good entre for a novel . . .

[Yazeh]

I managed to find a 2004 recipe for a cocktail....
several films have been made of her life... one with Greta Garbo and one French with Jean Moreau.. And several other ones...

[DrPenfection]

I managed to find a 2004 recipe for a cocktail....
several films have been made of her life... one with Greta Garbo and one French with Jean Moreau.. And several other ones...

ahh, yes . . . but has anyone created a good story about Mata Hari's Cordial? It needs to be one of those "out of the box" provocative mysteries, not necessarily about Mata Hari, but features as a key component the Cordial. Perhaps set prior to WWII, the hidden daughter of Mata Hari follows her mother's footsteps and becomes a well placed courtesan in Paris but in reality is a spy for the Axis powers, killing her victims at the right time with her speciality - the Cordial. and so on . . .

And now . . .

[mizgeorge]

Aha! I should have headed straight for Ms Hari - that was very slow of me!

I'll be back very shortly

[junglejim]

I managed to find a 2004 recipe for a cocktail....
several films have been made of her life... one with Greta Garbo and one French with Jean Moreau.. And several other ones...

ahh, yes . . . but has anyone created a good story about Mata Hari's Cordial? It needs to be one of those "out of the box" provocative mysteries, not necessarily about Mata Hari, but features as a key component the Cordial. Perhaps set prior to WWII, the hidden daughter of Mata Hari follows her mother's footsteps and becomes a well placed courtesan in Paris but in reality is a spy for the Axis powers, killing her victims at the right time with her speciality - the Cordial. and so on . . .

And now . . .

OT... Reminds me of the story of the Brass Monkey, a canned cocktail drink from the 1970's that left this poor college lad with many a Sunday morning hangover. The advertising was very well done. And the color was surprising enough to be the exact same hue as Mystery Ink #31, Papier Plume's Sazerac.

[mizgeorge]

So.
This one's a little different.

This pen ran out today. I've even cleaned it. Now it needs refilling and I have narrowed it down (for today anyway) to three inks.

I'd like to know what the three inks are, and also which one should go in the pen!

There's a completely irrelevant bonus for identifying the blue ink as well!

Have fun!

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I should add the the colours in the large picture are running a tiny bit yellow (sorry - nothing but artificial light these days) but those in the close ups are much more accurate.

[Yazeh]

@junglejim thanks for the recipe and story. At one point I was intrigued by truly historical cocktails and went through an old recipe book. But then I realized I don't like cocktails. And like my liquor straight.. and then I realized I didn't care for alcohol altogether, unless cooking

@mizgeorge ; that's one gorgeous pen...
That needs a special ink
I would go with he first one....
The other two are of dubious shades
Kwz gold robert Oster gold antiqua for starters...