First Bottled Ink?

[elysee]

When you began using bottled ink, what was the first bottled ink that you ever bought and in what color?

 

My first bottled ink was Osmiroid ink in blue.

[Shangas]

I started using bottled ink around the age of...10 I think. Would've been in the mid-90s. If I recall, the ink was Sheaffer Blue-Black.

[corniche]

Hello Elysee,

 

Great question. Skrip blue-black with the ink-well bottle.

 

All the best,

 

Sean

 

 

Edit: Forgot to add closing salutation before.

Edited August 12, 2013 by S. P. Colfer

[inotrym]

Parker Blue ( can't say whether it's the washable or the permanent one).

It was part of a Frontier Chromaflair gift set.

[dragos.mocanu]

I started using bottled ink at 6 something years old (1st grade)...I can't really remember exactly, but I think it was a bottle of Hero Blue (because it was cheap and widely available)...I remember spilling that one all over my desk, carpet and clothes . My first quality bottled ink was Pelikan Black.

[cybaea]

I think Montblanc Blue-Black (as it was then). Been using it (or the later version) in my MB 149 since I received it on graduating from university.

 

Though I did have a Parker Arrow Flighter before that I used quite a bit while in school. From memory I used mostly cartridges but I might have had a bottle of Quink somewhere.

[martinbir]

Back in the early '60s a bottle of Stephens blue ink, probably washable if they did that. My second bottle was Quink blue - just like Dad's!

[JulesSilvan]

I think it was either Diamine Chocolate or Onyx Black.

[gandalff]

It was waterman purple . So many years ago, sadly

[requiescat]

Winsor & Newton Calligraphy Black. For use with a brush. I was so excited: I was in college and my mother had never allowed me near the inks and finally I could have some!

 

Fountain pen ink? Private Reserve Plum. I still miss that color, don't have any presently.

[carlos.q]

Way back in the 90's it was Waterman Florida Blue...

[Namru]

Mid 90s washable black Quink, still have it. Second bottle was Penman Emereld that my grandmother didn't much like. I do miss it so.

[Poseidon]

Quink black. My first pen is a Parker!

Edited August 12, 2013 by Poseidon

[doggonecarl]

Pelikan 4001 Brillant Black to go with my first piston filler, a Pelikan M205 demonstrator.

[fourseamer]

Lamy Blue-Black. Still have the empty bottle.

[The Good Captain]

A long time ago, probably ~Parker Quink Turquoise. More recently, Waterman Florida Blue and Blue-Black. When my addiction really took hold, the first proper one was Pelikan 4001 Blue-Black and I've never looked back since.

[Dottie]

Mont Blanc Black. Because the office store was all out of cheaper ink, they sold me the bottle for what I would have paid. A deal, as it turned out. After that, I was hooked and bought vivid colors.

[sargetalon]

My first bottle came with my first pen when I had no idea what was what. It was a bottle of Waterman's Encre Noire to compliment an Expert.

[inkspot]

I started using fountain pens when I was a young child and my Dad bought me my first pen and ink set - my first ink was Sheaffer black.

 

When I returned to fountain pens as an adult, my first ink purchase was Diamine Cerise. I think... It's been a while.

[ravantra]

Was either MB or Waterman and it was either blue or black. One of those 4 combinations.