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Love the art deco design of the older Quink bottles. They also make excellent bud vases when you stumble upon the ones that are capless, inkless and labeless.

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I love the look of these old bottles. They must have been made well to retain ink all these years. How many of you out there actually use these vintage inks in your pens? I have been interested in picking up some vintage ink to try out.

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I have used Sheaffer blue black from the 1950s. A few years ago I found an unopened bottle my mother had that looked almost a quart size. Wrote perfectly in my 51 and Montblanc 144s. She bought two bottles when I was about two (I was born in 1948). I drank most of one bottle. We used the rest of the bottle through the 1960s for our pens, leaving one unopened.

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--Sign in a bar and grill, Ormond Beach, Florida, 1960.

 

 

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That's alot of ink! I will try to find an old Sheaffer's ink since they seemed to have survived the best.

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The bottle was used from about 1938 until about 1947/8. It was used for Quink and later Double Quink. ANM's picture has that bottle with the original labels and lids.

 

 

Thanks for the info. Interesting how the bottles look different with ink in them, so I didn't recognize it at first. It's rare in this area to find bottle with the labels and caps still.

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Nice photos

“My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.” - Graham Greene

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I love the look of these old bottles. They must have been made well to retain ink all these years. How many of you out there actually use these vintage inks in your pens? I have been interested in picking up some vintage ink to try out.

 

I have a pint bottle of Skrip ink from the 50's or 60's that I have been using off and on for several years. I have several bottles of Scrip ink from the 20's or 30's than I probably won't use. The corks have shrunk and the ink has partially evaporated and I am afraid of putting ink that old in any of my pens.

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And know the place for the first time. TS Eliot

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Thanks for the info. Interesting how the bottles look different with ink in them, so I didn't recognize it at first. It's rare in this area to find bottle with the labels and caps still.

 

The bottle you show is the same design as the ones I have except yours has a different cap threads than mine. I am wondering if it might be a little newer.

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ANM, I don't know anything more about the bottle as that's the way it came. So it could be. Usually around here one finds post-WW II stuff, but somethings earlier. And Parker bottles of any kind are rare here, Waterman's are the most common.

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I love the look of these old bottles. They must have been made well to retain ink all these years. How many of you out there actually use these vintage inks in your pens? I have been interested in picking up some vintage ink to try out.

 

I did a review a while back on a bottle of NOS Blue/Black Quink from 1943, which I have used in a few of my vintage Parkers including 51s and Vacumatics.

 

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/index.php/topic/258287-nos-parker-quink-blue-black-ink-from-1943/

Parker: Sonnet Flighter, Rialto Red Metallic Laque, IM Chiseled Gunmetal, Latitude Stainless, 45 Black, Duovac Blue Pearl Striped, 51 Standard Black, Vac Jr. Black, 51 Aero Black, 51 Vac Blue Cedar, Duofold Jr. Lapis, 51 Aero Demi Black, 51 Aero Demi Teal, 51 Aero Navy Gray, Duofold Pastel Moire Violet, Vac Major Golden Brown, Vac Deb. Emerald, 51 Vac Dove Gray, Vac Major Azure, Vac Jr. Silver Pearl, 51 Vac Black GF Cap, 51 Forest Green GF cap, Vac Jr. Silver Pearl, Duovac Senior Green & Gold, Duovac Deb. Black, Challenger Black, 51 Aero Midnight, Vac. Emerald Jr., Challenger Gray Pearl, 51 Vac Black, Duofold Int. Black, Duofold Jr. Red.

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