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    Default Antique Ink Tablets - Gates Concentrated

    I'm testing some of these antique, ink tablets in a newly-sacced Esterbrook.

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    Default Re: Antique Ink Tablets - Gates Concentrated

    Thanks. I've never seen those before.
    Corrodeless? I like that word.
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    Default Re: Antique Ink Tablets - Gates Concentrated

    I had no idea such a thing existed. Can't wait to hear how it behaves.

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    Default Re: Antique Ink Tablets - Gates Concentrated

    Don't take more than two every 24 hours.

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    Default Re: Antique Ink Tablets - Gates Concentrated

    Quote Originally Posted by azkid View Post
    I had no idea such a thing existed. Can't wait to hear how it behaves.
    Try searching Parker Trench Pen.

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    Default Re: Antique Ink Tablets - Gates Concentrated

    After a one week test in a newly-sacced, never-otherwise-inked Esterbrook the Gates ink tablets make perfectly nice ink. One reference I found for the company seems to date them to 1917.
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