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Antique Oxford
Chesterfield is one of the 713 brands in Inktend's built-in ink catalog.
Paper & pairing
Blues and navies are the most broadly "safe" fountain pen colors: legible, professional, and unlikely to raise eyebrows in an office. This ink will behave predictably on most fountain-pen-friendly paper. Cheap, highly absorbent paper (standard copier paper) will dull any ink's saturation and can cause feathering or bleed-through with wetter nibs.
About Chesterfield
Chesterfield was the house ink and pen brand of xFountainPens, an American online pen retailer operated by Paramount Goods LLC. Its bottled fountain pen inks, including the popular Antique series, were sold in 25, 50 and 100 ml bottles and were described as premium inks made in the United Kingdom by a manufacturer established in 1864. The xFountainPens website is no longer online and the brand is discontinued.
Storing and using the bottle
Bottled fountain pen ink has an effectively long shelf life when kept capped and out of direct sunlight: most inks remain usable for years. The main risk isn't the ink spoiling, it's a pen sitting inked and unused for weeks: that's what causes clogs, not the ink's age.
Frequently asked questions
Similar shades By colour distance
Color shown is a close digital approximation of a typical swatch, not a calibrated color match.