Whatever happened to all of the old ink colours ?. I found an old bottle of this Sheaffer's Skrip, wonderful stuff, still good after all these years although I don't really know when it was produced or stopped.
Washable Peacock Blue. Anybody try this stuff ?. If yes, any modern equivalent ?.
If the pic is the wrong size, poor quality etc please bear with me I'm still experimenting attaching and adding pics.

A museum piece! I’ve used Sheaffer Skrip for fifteen years now: considering its label, your bottle is certainly older, and probably much older. I have never used this color, though...

BTW, last week I had the opportunity to buy two bottles of pre-Slovenia black. I wonder what I’ll do after my old stock of blue-black is exhausted: shall I use the new blue-black in my pens or change to black???

Gary,

Have you tried Waterman Southseas blue? Southseas is a bit darker perhaps.
I'll try to post a picture later.
Your picture looks fine.

Regards,
Jeen

My favorite color! I used to think there was no equal. I thought I could see a difference between old Skrip Peacock and the new Sheaffer Turquoise. On second (or maybe 5th) look, I think they are almost identical.

If I find some time today, I'll do a sample of several and post a picture.

Echoing Elaine! That's all I ever used in school. I have fond memories of Peacock Blue.

That bottle looks like it is 1950s (perhaps early 1960s) vintage Skrip.

Peacock Blue, much beloved by everyone who has ever used it, is one tough color to find now that Sheaffer doesn't make it anymore. Consider youself lucky, Gary, that you found a bottle.

Enjoy it, and once it runs out, Noodlers Navajo Turquoise or Waterman's South Seas Blue are adequate substitutes.

Leslie J, I note you have as a foot note "I could always do with another VP" is that Vanishing Point ?.
I have a Namiki VP which has the one piece cap / clip and has 18 very narrow faceted sides. Came with box with a "Ceaseation of manufacture certificate" which from memory says 1992-1997 production. A great pen.

Hi Jeen,
That would be great.I like turquoise inks

Here's my sampler of the turquoise inks I have. I used a glass dip pen because unlike a certain Mad Dutchman I didn't want to fill and clean a bunch of pens. So, this doesn't really give a good representation. There is little difference with a fine nib. I expect that it would be greater with wide nibs. I also did a swab sample. I tried to dip the swab the same amount of time and swab the same way, but that's really impossible.

Maybe I'll do is again with a variety of nibs when I'm not being so lazy. (yes, stranger things have happened)

Elaine, thanks for your efforts, the Watermans South Seas Blue is nice, a little stronger which I like so I think I'll get some.
Nice hand writing also.

Thanks for starting this thread Gary, and for posting samples. I have rinsed out more than a few vintage pens from antique stores/eBay that had dried up Peacock Blue ink in them!
Thanks, Elaine for the writing samples; I have some Waterman South Seas Blue and it's a nice colour

I'm glad the new Sheaffer Turquoise looks so much like the Peacock Blue in the sample. I have some Sheaffer Javelins that will be stocking stuffers for Christmas. I also ordered a selection of cartridges for the family to pick from... Blue-Black, Purple, and Turquoise.

Bill

Hi Elaine
Thanks for your efforts waterman south seas blue is nice looking though i cant access it here

Take Care
Emrecan

The inks mentioned seem very close to the Scheaffers Washable Blue.

I think Herbin Bleu Pervenche is an even closer match. Even if not, it's a very nice blue and my personal favorite.

Montblanc Turquoise is a very close match also.

Laura

Forgive me for bringing up an old thread but I had to join in....

My late father was keen on fountain pens and I remember he had some cartridges of Skrip Peacock Blue (and various bottles of Quink - I can still remember the smell). I really was very disappointed to discover that Sheaffer no longer make Peacock Blue. That said, the Sheaffer Turquoise on the sample did look very close to the original, at least on my monitor.

Anyone done a comprehensive review? I would love to get hold of something approaching Peacock Blue for old times' sake.

Best wishes

Bruce

Shaeffer peacock is 237.84 on the chroma chart posted some time back in the Inky Thoughts section http://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/in...showtopic=59674 or
http://www.rmimaging.com/projects/inks/inks.html takes you to the chart.
So Visconti Turquoise is 232, YOL is 229.77 Pelikan is 234.61, Waterman Southseas blue is 241 but Shaeffer Turq was not analized. Visually the samples given above show it to be almost identical though. As you can see by the numbers and the sample Waterman is bluer.

I've got a bottle of the new turquiose and by running a jet of compressed air in my left ear I can part the mists of time sufficiently to say that if it's not the same as the Peacock Blue I blinded teachers with in grades 4-7, it's close enough for nostalgia. If you don't have the original in hand to compare to, I doubt you'd know it wasn't the same-- I don't!

The new Turquoise is quite close to Peacock, but lacks some of the brilliance somehow (I have both). I used quite a bit of it in grade school, but it's really too bright for regular use, even though it is a very lovely color.

Noodler's Navajo is close, is more saturated, and has a water resistant component, unlike Peacock which is the most washable ink I know of, including Sheaffer green.

Peter

I have used Sheaffer's Peacock Blue before, and I liked it until my girlfriend in Singapore saw it. She hated it so much, I ended up going back to regular Skrip Blue. I still have two cartridges of Peacock Blue left. Maybe I should use one just for the fun of it.

I am a big fan of Peacock Blue also. I still have three or four bottles of the older stuff in the blue and yellow box, at least six bottles of the later production stuff in the red/burgundy box, and I bought five bottles of the Slovenian ink. I keep different pens filled with different aged inks. For instance I have a "26" Duofold Senior filled with the yellow box ink, the red/burgundy box stuff goes in my Montgrappa Symphony and a few others, while the new ink goes into one of my MB 146's, a MB 149, and whichever pen might come to hand.
While they are quite similar, there are color difference in all three inks.

Ken.

I find PR Daphne to be quite close to the old Peacock Blue. It's so bright it's like highlighter ink.

The chroma chart appears to have been removed at rmimaging.com. A shame, since we were having so much fun comparing inks.

The chroma chart owner at rmimaging.com says that the file has been restored (there were website changes that removed several things on the site).

My friend has a pouch of a few Sheaffer cartridge pens, and I looked through a lit cluster of cartridges and found Peacock Blue on top. I thought for a second and remembered that it was fairly rare. I put it back in the case and put a blue-black cartridge in.

How rare is the stuff?

I was wasting time by looking around on eBay today and found some guy selling bottles of Peacock Blue. I remembered this thread and thought I'd post in case somebody was interested in some vintage ink.

Two bottles of blue
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...em=220265388418

Two bottles of blue
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...em=220265389055

bottles of blue, red, and black
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...em=220265390814

Hi,

I just saw this page on the Net and thought you guys and gals might find it interesting (if you've not already seen it).

I know this is an older post, but I wanted to point out that ink in carts evaporate over time and that there's not a lot of use in keeping them too long. I have carts from ~20 years ago and they are about half-full. The peacock blue I have is, maybe, 3/5ths full. I've had others that were down to about 1/4th full. There may be a way to keep them from evaporating, but I don't know what it would be. (These have all been out of the light in a drawer.)

My advice is to use them and enjoy them, or give/sell them to those who will. (Or you can keep them for twenty years like I have... just in case. )

I'm not sure if they can be reconstituted by adding a few drops of distilled water with a syringe. Haven't tried it, but it might work.