First Bottled Ink?

[lapis]

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.

Ditto and exactly in 52.

[lapis]

I remember Peacock Blue was a nice color.

But I cannot recall the exact color.

 

Do you know of a modern equivalent of Peacock blue?

Visconti isn't bad at alll but IMO it'll definitely have to be ku-jaku.

 

Mike

[kiavonne]

If I remember correctly, my first bottle of ink was Noodler's Red Black.

[mirosc]

Pelikan Blue Black. Didn't like it too much and so quite a lot remained in it before I bought another color (don't remember what it was). Then I gave the bottle to my father who was more than happy to use it for reviving his old school pen.

[Turquoise]

Waterman Black. It came with my Phileas, and the ink oozed out of the M nib too quickly. I tried Pelikan Royal Blue and Turquoise right after that, and they worked great for me in the M Phileas.

[amberleadavis]

Here is a thread about replacements for Peacock Blue.

 

Here are some samples from around FPN.

 

http://sheismylawyer.com/INK/attachments/163-original.jpg

 

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v12/elainepnj/turquoise.jpg

 

 

http://sheismylawyer.com/INK/attachments/2012-06-12_06_small.jpg

[ac12]

Thanks guys.

I might get to see my old "peacock blue" again.

 

I took a look at the various online samples of the 3 inks; Visconti tuqouise, ku-juku, Sheaffer turquoise.

Wow, the turquoise is a bright ink. I can't imagine a whole page of it.

 

I think it will be fun to pick up a bottle of turquoise, write with it and be take back to way back then.

[RLTodd]

Sheaffer Ft. Madison Emerald Green in the 2 oz. Skripwell Bottle.

 

I think it was twenty-nine cents.

[FountainPenCowgirl]

Bought blind (before I discovered samples), two PR inks:

 

Tanzanite

Burgundy Mist

 

I lucked out wit both of them. Tanzanite is one of my must-have-nearby inks. Burgundy Mist has taken a back seat to two similar colors that are a little closer to my ideal in that range. But both were great first purchases, great intros to fountain pen inks. No regrets.

[tarheel1]

First was sheaffer turquoise and second was pr tanzanite.

[SeeksAdvice]

Parker Quink Black.

 

Followed a few years later by Nooderl's Blue that Shall not be Named.

[Wish]

Probably Pilot Iroshizuku Tsuki-yo and Ku-jaku. Heh. Inked up my first CC-fill pen with Ku-jaku I think.

[ddustinn]

My first bottled ink was Noodler's Black. I always have at least one pen filled with it.

[BakerMikeRomeo]

I bought a bottle of Pilot Blue-Black at the same time I bought my first fountain pen- a black Pilot 78G, reasoning that ink from the same company that made a pen would probably work pretty good in that pen.

 

Pilot Blue-Black isn't going to knock your socks off, or anything, but I like how it looks coming out of the fine nib, and it has a weird sort of bland-chemical smell that I like.

[Parker Quink Turquoise]

The first bottle of ink that I ever purchased was a bottle of Parker Quink Turquoise.

[elysee]

Sheaffer Peacock Blue...still have the box, cost me a whole 29 cents, plus tax.

I used a bottle of Sheaffer Peacock Blue during college. : )

[Pentulant]

My first was Noodler's Purple Martin. I don't even know why I bought it when all I used at the time were cartridges.

[xwingrox]

Well, I started using fountain pens after discovering this forum. Naturally I started with a bottle of Noodler's Black and a Lamy Safari!

[Bigeddie]

My first two bottles of ink arrived with a TWSBI 540; Lamy Blue-Black and PR Chocolat. Very soon after came Diamine Umber.

[chris.hale]

My first bottle was Diamine Imperial Purple, which arrived along with a converter for my Rotring Initial. Much as I love the colour and enjoyed the departure into something different, I've pretty much settled back into blue, black or blue-black.