Sheaffer Skrip Ink

[Phormio]

I always liked this blue ink, but is it true Sheaffer changed the formula with the new bottles. If so, does anyone have a stockpile they wouldn't mind sharing....

[lapis]

Yes, it is true that they have changed formulas over time. No, sorry, I don't have any to share (I have only a couple of half-empty bottles). Check this site out. Even the shots of the different bottles are neat

 

Mike

[welch]

EBay usually has "real" Skrip Royal Blue and Blue-black.

 

See: http://www.ebay.com/itm/221300383050?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649

 

and: http://www.ebay.com/itm/221300381808?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649

 

for recent bulk sales.

 

Furthermore, EBay often has "master bottles", the 16-ounce bottles of Sheaffer Royal Blue or Blue-black used for schools and offices (I think). Here is a half-full blue-black:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/VTG-Shaeffers-SKRIP-216-BLUE-BLACK-INK-in-16-oz-Glass-Bottle-w-Box-/271246059626?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3f2786686a

[ac12]

There are at least 3 different formulations:

1 - yellow and blue label (US)

2 - nib pointed up (Slovania)

3 - nib pointed down (Slovania)

 

Your bottle is even older than the yellow and blue label bottles.

Who knows how many times they changed the formulation while in the US.

I like the current ink, #3 above. I use red, turquoise and black.

[welch]

I believe red-label Skrip was the last sort made in at Sheaffer-ville, also known as Ft Madison, Iowa. The blue and yellow boxes were traditional Skrip colors, at least as far back as the early '50s. I have a 4-ounce bottle that advertises the Snorkel ("takes the dunk out of filling"). The Snorkel-era Skrip, by the way, is "Chemopure". Sheaffer Skrip in the '60s boasted that its secret ingredient RC-35 would survive water, ink eradicator (smelled like bleach, to me), and several other sorts of catastrophe.

 

In the late-60s, the Sheaffer family sold the company to Textron, which kept the blue-and-yellow style but added some bits of Textron logo.

[cvasara]

Over the years, since the late 50s, I've used Skrip almost exclusively. When Skrip went to the new bottle, and the Slovien ink, I purchased quite a few bottles of the Skrip in the Red box. Jet Black. When that bunch I bought ran low, I found many bottles of Jet Black and Red in the yellow box, that, apparently was destine for Canada, as the boxes and the bottles were in English and French. I even gave several of these away, about a year ago, on the FPN board ,called "Pay it Forward".

Skrip just keeps writing, never have clog problems with any pen I put it in. Can't speak for the 'new' stuff, but the vintage just keeps going. I've sold a few, too. But you would be hard pressed to find an ink for any pen you use that is as easy to use as "Vintage" Skrip.

Don't know if the pix will attach, I don't post much here recently, and have yet to take the time to figure out the hoops to jump through to get a picture to post. But here goes - -

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7447/8729082149_690036b227_m.jpghttp://www.flickr.com/photos/9789926@N07/8730204160/in/set-72157604245135564/?details=1#

Edited November 27, 2013 by cvasara

[Phormio]

I cannot say what vintage it was but I can tell you I bought this in 2003. From a store. It was the ink they had in stock and being a newbie to FP at the time, I took it to mean that was the current stock of ink.

 

I believe it is a washable blue. All I know is that it has been good to me but this wont last forever!

 

And cvasara, that's an impressive Skrip pile you have there.