BUYING FOUNTAIN PEN INKS IN MANILA

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BUYING FOUNTAIN PEN INKS IN MANILA

February 3, 2013 by personalgeographic

(Waterman inks photo by Cesar Salazar.)

More and more people are growing interested in using fountain pens here in Manila, as evidenced by the growing membership in our pen group Fountain Pen Network-Philippines. For a long time Parker, Waterman, Cross and Montblanc were the only brands readily available in the local fountain pen market. Now there are new brands available: Lamy, Pelikan, Sailor, to name a few. Waterman,Aurora, Cross and Rotring are now no longer being sold here, while Sheaffer recently reintroduced itself. The local Pilot distributor sells only school pens, not the fine writing instruments, nor the ink.

I’ve compiled a list of stores that sell fountain pen inks, in bottles and cartridges as of 2013: (click on links to see directory info)

National Bookstore branches - Parker, Lamy, Sheaffer, Inoxcrom (cartridges)

Montblanc branches – Makati (632) 813-3739, Powerplant Mall (632) 898-2347, Shangri-la Mall (632) 633-4636, Manila (632) 521-1140, Robinsons Place (632) 551-2095, Ayala Town Center (632) 850-5532

Scribe Writing Essentials – 3/F Eastwood Mall, QC. (632) 900-0053. - Herbin, Lamy, Sailor, Pelikan (4001 and Edelstein)

Cutting Edge (Greenbelt 5, Trinoma, Eastwood, Megamall, Mall of Asia) – Waterman

Times Trading- Lamy

Updated: We now have a distributor for Diamine inks! Since I don’t have permission to post the contact details here yet, please join the FPN-Philippines yahoogroup (see link above) and make your order there, addressed to Peter.

As of this time, there are no local distributors yet for Noodler’s, Rohrer & Klingner, Aurora, Visconti, De Atramentis, Pilot (regular and Iroshizuku), Platinum and other popular brands of ink. For these, we resort to buying from eBay or online stores based overseas.

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Posted in Hobbies, Shopping | Tagged Diamine, Fountain Pens, Inks, Lamy Herbin, Manila, Montblanc, Parker, Pelikan, Sailor, Sheaffer, Shopping, Waterman | 4 Comments

4 Responses

on February 3, 2013 at 9:59 pm | Reply issy.reyes

Useful post. I think there are also Hero inks but I don’t know where they’re sourced. I bought mine from Isip Pens but I don’t think he’ll be selling anymore. I have yet to test the ink so I can’t vouch for its behavior or quality.
- on February 3, 2013 at 10:07 pm | Reply personalgeographic
  
  Hero inks were being sold at Merriam Bookstore in Recto, also at the small stores near UE. But since it’s not that mainstream an ink, and I didn’t know if they had regular supplies, I didn’t include it in the list.
on February 10, 2013 at 2:48 am | Reply Bridge

The Cutting Edge at Trinoma also sells Waterman inks. But as of today, I think I just got their last bottle of red and purple [not sure about the purple] ink. xD
on February 10, 2013 at 5:59 pm | Reply personalgeographic

Hi Bridge, thank you for confirming that Cutting Edge Trinoma also carried Waterman I just updated the post, including details on how to order Diamine inks locally, as well.