The question was rhetorical, I plead... Have you seen Leslie McMurtry's in The Terrible Zodin? I'm sure they inspired Simon Guerrier and Ben Morris's new book.
For a second my mind saw the first's as the eleventh's before I realized it was a cravat rather than a bow tie (and before my brain processed the title)!
As I dimly recall it was easier to get blue ink than black. I had fun 'flushing' an old school fountain pen and the ink kept changing from black to blue and black again as the old layers of dried ink soaked off.
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