u/ArchivingApril

Re-upload! For some reason Reddit removed my post again through the auto filter 😅 I think it doesn’t like the multiple angles of the same thing. Potentially marking it as spam? Not quite sure!

I know the Grateful Crane, blue/periwinkle, one is real. The Dragon Palace, green, I wonder now if it is fake. They are both supposed to have yellow gold accents and at first when I only had the dragon palace I wondered if maybe it was just a yellow light gold and I was as imagining that it looked silver. Also, like with the grateful crane there is supposed to be a different colored band at the bottom of the cap like you see with the beige strip on the grateful crane. They both weigh the same and the nibs are indistinguishable. As far as I can see there is no Sailor PGS in this color with silver metal coloring. Did I buy a fake?

Edit: Thank you so much guys! It is definitely the plating process change that results in this extremely pale gold color that almost appears silver in comparison.

I could not for the life of me get this ink to show up well in photos. It is a very dark purple with beautiful shading!

Edit: I just realized I wrote 1.1. Stub 🤦‍♀️ The first time I wrote it I wrote Fwsbi. I guess it was destined to be imperfect!

My prior post was removed for some reason. Hopefully that is not the fate of this post as well!

Edit: The first 3 pages are for Jane Eyre. One of my favorite books!

This was a bit of an impulse purchase I am not going to lie. I had seen it before and wasn’t immediately obsessed even though I thought it was very pretty. Then I saw that there were like 8 left in a fine on the Esterbrook website after I had seen it sold out everywhere else… so now we are here. But! I have no regrets. The resin(?) is even more beautiful in person. It has almost a 3 dimensional effect to it with the pink splatters. It’s like a pink spider web was captured in clear resin. It is honestly mesmerizing. Also the converter with cherry blossoms on it is just a beautiful touch. My favorite part, oddly enough, has to be where the cap screws on. The see through resin layered with the hint of pink and all the gold accents coming through at the join where the cap screws on is just really beautiful. This is my first Esterbrook and I know people have feelings about Esterbrook on this sub but I really wanted to be able to have my own experience and opinion. Thus far I can say this won’t be my last Esterbrook and I am already eyeing the Sugar Plum Estie.

I am not even two months into this hobby and this is my ninth pen! My tenth pen is already ordered and it is the BUNGUBOX Esterbrook Kachofugetsu! 🩷