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(More customer reviews)This is my favorite color ink (though the Noodler's waterproof and smearproof black is great in its own right, and the Ottoman Azure -- blue, natch -- is quite vintage-looking and beautiful also).
Supposedly, the guy who founded and runs Noodler's Inks came across an old Civil War-era inkwell with a good amount of dried-up residual ink in it, and when he liquified the contents, he found a pleasing shade of brownish red. He then recreated the ink and called it Antietam (after the battlefield) due to its age-worn look and the 'blood-red' color. Don't know if that's true but it's a good story.
The ink is much less bright red than your monitor probably tells you. If it's a blood color, it would be more like dried blood than fresh blood. But it doesn't look grisly or sinister -- it looks patina'd, antiquey, and, to my eye, very classy.
3 fl. oz. is the equivalent of almost 90 milliliters, a really generous supply for the price (most brand name commercial inks I've seen are sold in containers of 50 ml, or 1.7 oz). It'll last me years, I'm sure. Recommended.
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