Scrip Deluxe Blue

[kkshadow]

Somehow I missed this one in my youth - Sheaffer Scrip Deluxe Blue. Always willing to buy another of these ink-well bottles, so at about 1/3 full of ink, I picked this up at a white elephant sale. First two pics from my camera, comparison scanned. Enjoy!

 

 

Deluxe Blue turns out to be a blue-black that leans blue, I actually like it quite a bit. Surprisingly water-fast and quick drying.

Please know that it's a pair of Pilot 78G's, not Metropolitan as I wrote pre-coffee.

 

 

Tiny bits of shading, but really not much

 

 

Comparison to everything similar I own. This ink does show a marked lighter tone in a Japanese M vs the stub. Also the WahlBerry is not a turquoise as it seems in this scan.

 

In real life, the closest is the diamond bottled vintage Parker Super Quink Permanent Blue-Black. Imagine that - Parker and Sheaffer fighting it out in the ink market. The next closest is the FPN Van Gogh Starry Night Blue.

 

 

 

 

[Mr.Rene]

Deluxe Blue was a very nice deep "True " blue..but in the photos looks like a blue black or something...

[kkshadow]

Thanks for the comment. My eyesight is not what it used to be. My first reaction was to note it as a blue, but to me it appears blue-black. YMMV.

I tried to include it with other colors so people could judge for themselves.

 

K