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Is the red saffron ink from the Mahatma Gandhi series limited, and why do market prices fluctuate so strongly?

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The saffron ink is a regular accompanying ink for the Gandhi edition and not an officially limited edition. After a phase of clearance sales, it was meanwhile again offered in regular trade, which is why partly very high resale prices on the internet do not reflect the real market value. Since the Hitchcock edition has meanwhile appeared as the successor, worse availability is to be expected in the long term; at the current time, however, the ink is still obtainable, depending on the boutique.

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