New Sheaffer Skrip Jam Bottle

[Boiling Black Coffee]

Last week, Chinese Sheaffer agent told me that new Sheaffer Skrip jam bottle was available, and today, I got mine.

Second batch, first batch had been sold in USA and UK last year, so this time, all 100+ bottles were reserved for Chinese market.

 

9 colors, all in stock, I choos coastal blue.

 

Quite small, 30 mL, a red circle on the edge of cap, and a white dot trademark at the center of cap, seems to be a sticker? 79 Yuan, equal to about 12.5 USD, a little expensive. Made in China, guess they have never go abroad.😆

Write with a Snorkel Admiral

 

Well, not bad. I am not very interested in ink, but I am happy to see the rebirth of jam bottles with ink wells.

Told my friends and many of them also paid for the inks, soon to see more actual samples.😄

[lapis]

Great news! Nine nice new colours with new names. And above all, with better-looking lids. The original tin things somewhat worried me as to corrosion etc. Sure hope they make their way to Krautland!

[arcfide]

These bottles are more innovative and interesting than I thought at first! Very neat, especially as 30ml bottles, as the Sailor and Herbin 30ml bottles can get pretty infuriating quickly. Lamy's Crystal bottles are a little better, but these look properly useful if they work as intended. 

[inkstainedruth]

Interesting.

My first impression, on seeing the initial photo, is that they look like the old Private Reserve bottles.  

But am I correct in that they have a ink filling shelf, the way the vintage ones from the 1950s did?  Cool!

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[chromantic]

The original shelf bottles were designed with the Tip-dip (and, later, Snorkels) in mind, where you only needed to immerse the end of the feed. Good luck getting a pen that needs to be immersed up to the section to fill.

[PithyProlix]

41 minutes ago, chromantic said:

The original shelf bottles were designed with the Tip-dip (and, later, Snorkels) in mind, where you only needed to immerse the end of the feed. Good luck getting a pen that needs to be immersed up to the section to fill.

 

@Boiling Black Coffee: Can you please tell us how far your pens immerse into the 'well' part of the bottle? 

[arcfide]

1 hour ago, inkstainedruth said:

But am I correct in that they have a ink filling shelf, the way the vintage ones from the 1950s did?

They are styled after the older inkwell bottles designed for Sheaffer's own low immersion feeds and other systems, but the actual filling mechanism appears to be an internal well much like the Montblanc shoe bottles.  

[Boiling Black Coffee]

12 hours ago, inkstainedruth said:

Interesting.

My first impression, on seeing the initial photo, is that they look like the old Private Reserve bottles.  

But am I correct in that they have a ink filling shelf, the way the vintage ones from the 1950s did?  Cool!

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

Yes, I said this is the rebirth of jam bottle with ink well. The instruction on box also demonstrated that.

[Boiling Black Coffee]

11 hours ago, chromantic said:

The original shelf bottles were designed with the Tip-dip (and, later, Snorkels) in mind, where you only needed to immerse the end of the feed. Good luck getting a pen that needs to be immersed up to the section to fill.

No... Actully, the shelf bottles were much earlier than Tip-dips and Snorkels, the oldest bottles were shown with Balances in posters from 1930s, maybe around 1936.

[Boiling Black Coffee]

11 hours ago, PithyProlix said:

 

@Boiling Black Coffee: Can you please tell us how far your pens immerse into the 'well' part of the bottle? 

No idea... I wrote with the ink by dipping.

[amberleadavis]

Oh, I love these, thank you for sharing.

[Kalessin]

Hmmmm... a return to the Top-Well bottle design!  The multiple languages on the packaging may mean we'll see them worldwide.

 

Unfortunately, we'll never see a return to the old Skrip formulas from when the ink was made in the US.  I've bought enough of my favorites, Peacock Blue and Red, to last a lifetime, and ended up with enough bottles of blue (permanent and washable) to last several lifetimes.

 

It's weird to see the A.T. Cross name on a Sheaffer's bottle.

 

[djenner]

Goodness!  A couple of these comments make me feel very old. 

 

The desks in my grade school classrooms had an opening just the right size for a bottle of Sheaffer ink; we didn't use them because we were al supplied with approved fountain pens which we filled as needed from a bottle at the head of the classroom.  These gave way to early Sheaffer cartridge filled pens (the cartridges were free, refilled by custodial staff as I recall).  (Ballpoint pens were not allowed, were confiscated along with yoyos....)  All of this is late-'50s stuff.  Everyone had Sheaffer ink in their distinctive bottles -- metal-capped, from the local 5&dime.  And steel nibs for dip-pens were commonly available.  

[collectorofmanythings]

What exciting news this is! Can’t wait for them to get here to the US!

[Mr.Rene]

About the new Sheaffer Ink Bottles last Febreruary 2021 I´ve got from www.Pendemonium.com that email: "About a month ago, we got in our shipment of the new Sheaffer inks, every bottle leaked inside the box, on the labels and outside the box!   Just yesterday, We talked to our representative at Sheaffer again and has arranged for new bottles to be shipped.  It took about 3-4 months to get the first batch,   we hope these will arrive faster!  We hope to have enough to sell soon."....

You see those new bottles seem to be "stuck" for long time...

Regards.