Peacock Blue Ink Cartridges

[workinpants]

Hi there--I just found this forum. I read online that 'Peacock Blue' is no longer available. Has anyone tried the new 'Turquoise'? I am going to try the turquoise,but I really would love to find some " Peacock"!! thanks!

[Parker Quink Turquoise]

Sheaffer Peacock Blue and Parker Quink Turquoise were the two inks I used back in high school.I have tried the new Sheaffer Turquoise ink.It is nice ,but is darker than the Peacock Blue.

 

Bottles of Peacock Blue show up on e-bay from time to time.

[bogiesan]

Hi there--I just found this forum. I read online that 'Peacock Blue' is no longer available. Has anyone tried the new 'Turquoise'? I am going to try the turquoise,but I really would love to find some " Peacock"!! thanks!

Welcome to the family. As noted, Sheaffer's original peacock blue was discontinued a long time ago and has been replaced by turquoise. It's different, for sure, but I think you will like it. I enjoy this Sheaffer color tremendously but I have never used the old peacock.

 

If you still have some original peacock blue, you might be able to blend to match. Someone around here who knows much more about turquoises than I do might be able to help you do that or suggest a suitable replacement. Meantime, you can search for reviews and scans of turquoises to see if there is something on the market that appeals to you.

[Ernst Bitterman]

Also close are Herbin Bleu Pervenche and Diamine Marine.

[UkeDan]

I bought Waterman's South Seas Blue awhile ago to replace Peacock Blue but wasn't convinced....

[ac12]

Having not used peacock blue in a LONG LONG time, the Sheaffer turquoise looks pretty good as far as my failing memory can recall.

[Garageboy]

Peacock, IIRC is a tad bluer

Pilot Kon Peki? But it's expensive

[Ghost Plane]

Yet worth it. Ku-jaku is closer to the old Peacock I used as a kid, along with Private Reserve's Blue Suede

[Nathaniel Harter]

The current Sheaffer Turquoise is greener than the Peacock Blue ( greener as in color ). You could mix a blue with it maybe get a closer color. Other than that Ebay may have some. Every so often Pendemonium (pendemonium.com) has some of it, its about $20 for a bottle.

[Ceilidh]

When I was little, in the stone age, I learned to write with a Sheaffer cartridge pen and I loved Peacock Blue. I recently acquired an unopened bottle and still really like it. I've been able to compare it side by side to a few of the modern inks often suggested as a substitute and I think you have to do your own experimenting. Inks look different in different pens. Off the top of my head:

Waterman SoSeas Blue - nowhere close. And I love SSB: it's gorgeous, but it's darker and more blue

PR Blue Suede - I love this ink too, but in my pens it's just plain green, more to the blue end than the yellow, but still green. In only one of my pens, with a broad stub, does it show any real blue.

However, I do have one bottle of ink that, to my eye, is indistiguishable from my now-opened bottle of Peacock Blue, and that is....Sheaffer Skrip Turquoise. Others have not found it so close, so YMMV.

[Trebster]

However, I do have one bottle of ink that, to my eye, is indistiguishable from my now-opened bottle of Peacock Blue, and that is....Sheaffer Skrip Turquoise. Others have not found it so close, so YMMV.

 

My experience is the same as I compare cartridges of Peacock Blue that were packaged in the red card. Slovenian Skrip Turquoise is so very close as to be a chore to definitively distinguish between old and new.

 

Fans of Peacock Blue do appear to agree that the Skrip of the 60s was brighter.

When I reach for a turquoise, Slovenian Skrip comes first as I husband what remains of my "old" Skrip and a half bottle of Quink Turquoise, which is a completely different animal (to my eye) than Peacock Blue.

Edited March 2, 2014 by Trebster

[donwinn]

Yet worth it. Ku-jaku is closer to the old Peacock I used as a kid, along with Private Reserve's Blue Suede

I have a couple of bottles of original Peacock Blue, as well as a bottle of Ku-jaku. The Ku-jaku is much darker than the Peacock, but it is also a very nice color.