Request for help from our archivists (or, "Name that Color!")

[darbs]

That is what I'm thinking. He says sort of a royal blue. Either way, I'm hoping I can get it!

[Katy]

Anybody know what shade of blue would be inside a Steel large cage bag?

Sapphire jumps to mind .

[darbs]

Anybody know what shade of blue would be inside a Steel large cage bag?

[Badger]

Mamma mia, that Cyan blue is a knockout.

[Janine]

WhiteStar, the design of the Tom Bihn logo label on the bag is an older style, and predates the introduction of Storm as a Cordura color option in March 2008. For a better view of storm to put up in a comparison window, try the June 2011 blog post, "Welcome back, Storm". Janine, your bag might be the color designated "U.N. Blue" in the color swatch images from mid-2003. That shows up with Wasabi conveniently placed beside U.N. Blue. The color renditions from the old swatch images won't be exact, but I think if you put up comparison windows containing your bag picture, the old swatch colors, and the picture of Storm from the blog post welcoming back Storm in 2011, you may find "U.N. Blue" to be a plausible candidate for your bag color.

Forum readers might want to refer to Janine's parallel thread, Please indulge my obsession with the history of Tom Bihn products, for more details on the old colors.

moriond

Wow, thank you! U.N. Blue is a really good guess. Looks like they ran out of U.N. Blue in 2004 (http://forums.tombihn.com/tom-bihn-n...ut-id-bag.html) and unless another batch was ordered, that means my bag is at least 8 years old.

ps. Glitter Blue?!?!

pps. Darcy likes the name! (old post here)

[dorayme]

I've never seen these archival colors IRL, but what about Titanium?

[moriond]

Color of Janine's vintage cafe bag is probably not storm

I vote on it being Storm. Maybe washed a few times and faded?

WhiteStar, the design of the Tom Bihn logo label on the bag is an older style, and predates the introduction of Storm as a Cordura color option in March 2008. For a better view of storm to put up in a comparison window, try the June 2011 blog post, "Welcome back, Storm". Janine, your bag might be the color designated "U.N. Blue" in the color swatch images from mid-2003. That shows up with Wasabi conveniently placed beside U.N. Blue. The color renditions from the old swatch images won't be exact, but I think if you put up comparison windows containing your bag picture, the old swatch colors, and the picture of Storm from the blog post welcoming back Storm in 2011, you may find "U.N. Blue" to be a plausible candidate for your bag color.

Forum readers might want to refer to Janine's parallel thread, Please indulge my obsession with the history of Tom Bihn products, for more details on the old colors.

moriond

[notmensa]

'Inigo Montoya: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.'

I almost spilled wine all over my keyboard. That quote sums up my entire day with research students discussing 'reliability' and 'validity' and 'psychometric properties'!!!

[backpack]

Great picture Janine!

Yep, it is Cordura like, or Cordura, so no clue.

[Janine]

How about this?



That's a Sapphire key strap on the top and a Storm one on the bottom.

[Katy]

Janine could you take a close up photo of the blue?

Good idea!

[backpack]

Janine could you take a close up photo of the blue?

[WhiteStar]

I vote on it being Storm. Maybe washed a few times and faded?

[Janine]

Any word back from the huddle? No rush, no worries, I'm just curious. :-D

[Katy]

I just hope you're not huddling together for warmth as you take shelter from the snow!

Hehe! We could not huddle together as we were not able to meet for a few days. Huddling will reconvine tomorrow.