Skrip Peacock Blue

[mrcharlie]

• There is a full 4 oz bottle on the 'bay right now. Not my auction, I don't know the seller, etc.

I just received the items from an auction for "3 Vintage Ink Bottles with Ink" for $1 plus 5.80 shipping that includes a bottle of Peacock Blue from the Snorkel era, and it is full up to the pinch in the bottle (so about 2/3 or maybe 3/4 full?). I haven't inked it up; as soon as my pen with current Sheaffer Turquoise runs dry I will. Even though I've used a sample generously provided by an FPN member in the past, I am excited!

Edited April 6, 2014 by mrcharlie

[Andyroo]

I've got two half empty yet sealed cartridges on my desk right now, came with a 1980's No-Nonsense Calligraphy set I bought recently for £2.50 in a charity shop.

[sotto2]

Could somebody just bottle up the scent of some authentic late 1950s vintage Peacock Blue and send it to me? I think I used to get high off that stuff bending over my writing paper and using my Sheaffer fountain pen practicing my penmanship in Miss Fisher's 6th grade class.

[mrcharlie]

I have the current Slovenia made Sheaffer Skrip Turquoise ink in a M Sheaffer's Cartridge Pen, and the old Sheaffer's Skrip Washable Peacock Blue (Snorkel advertised on box flaps "with RC-35" era) in a Medium Waterman Free Wheel. They are very close.

 

Edited April 6, 2014 by mrcharlie

[ac12]

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I have the current Slovenia made Sheaffer Skrip Turquoise ink in a M Sheaffer's Cartridge Pen, and the old Sheaffer's Skrip Washable Peacock Blue (Snorkel advertised on box flaps "with RC-35" era) in a Medium Waterman Free Wheel. They are very close.

 

 

Thanks for the comparison.

Now I feel better about having bought the Sheaffer Skrip Turquoise.

Back to 5th or 6th grade....

Now I just have to find one of those transparent Sheaffer School pens that I used back then.

[FarmBoy]

Now I just have to find one of those transparent Sheaffer School pens that I used back then.

What color?

[79spitfire]

I have the current Slovenia made Sheaffer Skrip Turquoise ink in a M Sheaffer's Cartridge Pen, and the old Sheaffer's Skrip Washable Peacock Blue (Snorkel advertised on box flaps "with RC-35" era) in a Medium Waterman Free Wheel. They are very close.

 

To my eyes, they look the same, both on the computer and in real life.

I found an old cartridge fit it to a Sheaffer calligraphy pen, and topped it up with distilled water. My results were the same.

 

I will say it is a well behaved ink, and it does dry very quickly, faster than some 'quick dry' formula modern inks. I would not turn down a bottle at a good price, but for the same money I would likely just use the newer stuff...

[ac12]

 

What color?

 

I had a couple.

Clear was my favorite...so I could watch the ink inside.

[mrcharlie]

Clear was my favorite...so I could watch the ink inside.

This is the first pen I filled with the Peacock Blue (using blunt syringe) .

 

 

However, it is a Fine and slightly dry, and I wanted to compare like to like, so I also put it in the wet Medium Waterman for making the above comparison of the two inks on paper.

 

I have some older, proper era for this pen, cartridges but this one is only from the 70s.

 

To my eyes, they look the same, both on the computer and in real life.

My eyes don't see color right, so I'm not to be trusted, but they do look just a little different to me but it isn't much. It isn't really apparent in the writing, but in the filled in blocks of color you can see it is just a little different.

 

I've been told by others that they look more alike on some paper and less on other paper, but I haven't tested them side by side on a lot of different paper to test this. Anyway, they are close enough that I wouldn't pay an arm and a leg for the old stuff, that is for sure.

Edited April 7, 2014 by mrcharlie

[ac12]

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This is the first pen I filled with the Peacock Blue (using blunt syringe) .

 

Mine had the flatter ends, like a flattened cone.

Must have been the 1960s

[mrcharlie]

Yep; the shallow cone ends started in the early 1960s and the flat ends started in the early 1970s through the end of production in the mid to late 1990s. I don't have every color in every era, but I have at least one clear in all three. Yellow ones are my favorite, and the rounded end oldest ones are my favorite, but I don't one that is both. The Sheaffer Turquoise from the above scan is from a Yellow one with the conical ends.

Edited April 8, 2014 by mrcharlie

[sotto2]

I think it's a little weird that so many of us on this forum gravitated to Peacock Blue Skrip ink in our penmanship classes. For sure, I was the only one in two 6th grade classes in my school that used that color ink. I know because Miss Fisher posted examples of everyone's writing in the hallway weekly.

[mrcharlie]

Maybe it is because Sheaffer Blue (aka Washable Blue and Deluxe Blue) was so ... washed out looking. Highly variable depending on the paper and pen, and I'd say not particularly good looking most of the time.

[amberleadavis]

Maybe it is because Sheaffer Blue (aka Washable Blue and Deluxe Blue) was so ... washed out looking. Highly variable depending on the paper and pen, and I'd say not particularly good looking most of the time.

 

That's probably true. Peacock blue was so different and we could get away with it. I didn't realize the modern turquoise was so similar, even if it doesn't feel the same. Thank you for doing the comparison.

[Skyppere]

UNFORTUNATELY, when I get an ink like this that I love AND is out of production, I stop using it! I know, I know, what's the use of having it if it stays in the bottle. I should use it and at least get

some enjoyment out of it while I have it. I'll be 92 and still have it, open the bottle and find it's dried up. It is one of my favorites...

The first pen I put it in, was probably a sheaffer targa, my first fancy pen.

At the moment I have one or two of those itsy bitsy teensy weensy little bottles that skrip made all those years ago...of this ink.

skyppere

[Skyppere]

Are you thinking of the Persian Rose? I, too, grew up using these colors -- and the purple and the brown. The black seemed kind of 'ordinary', but the colors were wonderful!

Well there's also watermelon red...

[swanjun]

 

I had a couple.

Clear was my favorite...so I could watch the ink inside.

 

My first fountain pen was a clear one with flat ends (1990 or so). I used nail polish remover to take the writing off the cartridge so it would not impede my view of the ink sloshing around. I still have quite a few of those carts, actually.

 

 

My eyes don't see color right, so I'm not to be trusted, but they do look just a little different to me but it isn't much. It isn't really apparent in the writing, but in the filled in blocks of color you can see it is just a little different.

 

I agree -- definitely more apparent in the blocks. I think Peacock Blue is a bit greener.

 

Well there's also watermelon red...

 

I love Melon Red with all my heart. It's a terrific ink.

[mrcharlie]

There is a full 4 oz bottle on the 'bay right now. Not my auction, I don't know the seller, etc.

 

That sold for $40 plus $7 shipping. $47! That is crazy talk.

[amberleadavis]

 

That sold for $40 plus $7 shipping. $47! That is crazy talk.

 

I just sent back one because I thought I was getting 3 bottles and it was one for $20. It's just not that motivational more me. I'd rather own more Noodler's.