How old is this ink?

[redryder]

Hi guys. I found this bottle of Pelikan ink at an old stationery shop near my parent's place. It looks like this (Pic taken from Ink Bottles site).

 

http://www.overdiep.nl/ink/DSCN7383.JPG

 

This is the first time I've seen this design. The box has Gunther Wagner written on it, and the bottle has a large 76 inscribed on the bottom.

[Pfhorrest]

Seeing how the paper has yellowed, I'd say at least 30 years.

[chravagni]

Seeing how the paper has yellowed, I'd say at least 30 years.

 

... or even more, I would say it is from the seventies (because I've got a pelikan bottle from the 80' and it has already a the modern look)

 

chiara

[Readymade]

I got one just like that but in Pelikan Brilliant Red

[diplomat]

My take is late 70s or 80s. I have a 60s bottle and it's cylindrical.

They still have that shape in production btw.

[GardenCity-NY]

Wow! 30 year old ink... is it still usable? Also, what did it cost you? Was it sold at a discount? I just paid 5.50 USD

for a 1oz bottle of Pelikan Violet in NYC at the ftn pen hospital...

[redryder]

Wow! 30 year old ink... is it still usable? Also, what did it cost you? Was it sold at a discount? I just paid 5.50 USD

for a 1oz bottle of Pelikan Violet in NYC at the ftn pen hospital...

 

Its still usable, and cost the same as new bottles. Here in Singapore pelikan ink is cheap, approx 2 USD each.

[PaulLeMay]

I bought an identical bottle at a flea market in Belgium last summer. Ink was great. I am still using it.

[Beechwood]

I bought a bottle of Brilliant Red Pelikan, same bottle, in Porto this October - cost 1 Euro!

[vans4444]

When I bought an old German piston filler from Germany a few months ago the seller also sent me an identical bottle of royal blue ink. The box has 180 penciled on the top. I assume that means 1.80 deutschmark?

[adichew]

Anyone has ever had fading problems with Pel blue?

 

I have 2 bottles of pel blue. The first one, at least 20 years old, fades almost instantly and within days is almost unreadable. The second, less than a year old, fades within 3 months. None of this experienced with Parker, Pelikan or Waterman Black, Waterman Blue-black, Aurora Blue

 

Adi

[fountainbel]

As far as I remember , the "76" glas marking in the bottom indicates the production year, being 1976 in your case.

Francis