Pelikan Edelstein Topaz is a vibrant blue ink with some shading and a tiny bit of red sheen.
Scans
There is a bit of shading on Iroful but also, somehow, feathering, which is uncommon for Iroful. Where there was feathering it also bled significantly through the paper. It could be a combination of this ink and nib, but it didn’t happen with writing on either of the other papers.
Photos
There is a small amount of red sheen on the large swatches.
The sheen doesn’t show in the writing, however, maybe a little around the edges of lines, but not much.
Microscope
The sheen doesn’t show much, just traces of it around edges of some lines in the writing, but not consistently.
Chromatography
It starts light blue and then fades out to a wide open area, then a band of cyan at the leading edge.
There is only a slight blue glow at and just past the leading edge. There was no noticeable reaction on the swatches.
Verdict
It looks nice, but this ink seems to be extraordinarily wet for me, and the bleeding on Iroful would seem to agree. I used it in a Jinhao 20 with an “03” UF nib and it wrote like a much wider nib. It worked well, just high flow. I’ve seen other reviews say it was dry, medium, and wet so your mileage may vary, I suppose. In other words, test your own bottle and do not assume it will behave a certain way. Stay clear of absorbant papers until you know for sure.
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