Sheaffer King's Gold in Tiny Bottle

[OCArt]

@Dan Carmellwas nice enough to send me a sample bottle of vintage Sheaffer Kings Gold ink. The sample bottle is tiny, it holds only 12ml of ink and I'm guessing it to be from the 1980's judging from the bottles' shape. I'd never seen one before and can only guess that stores gave them out as samples or perhaps with the purchase of a pen. Maybe given out at pen shows, but were there pen shows in the 80's?

 

In hand the color is, perhaps, a bit lighter. Not a yellow and not really a orange either, so gold was an apt name. 

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I know of the 12ml bottles as being sold in rack packs, two to a pack. 
 

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Forgot to add, the Kings Gold is a personal favorite!  

[LizEF]

Another nice one, @OCArt.   Definitely for wet and broader nibs.  Makes me wish I could find these on a rack somewhere.

[Licue]

They (the tiny 12ml bottles) also came with the Sheaffer Prelude Calligraphy set (not in all versions tho - apparently some Prelude Calligraphy boxes came with a big bottle/cartridges instead).

 

I find their depiction on the back of my Prelude box a bit misleading tho - the picture makes it seem they had an ink reservoir like the big bottles, but they don't (which of course wouldn't make much sense given their small size, but still I was somewhat disappointed 😉).

 

Imo they look very cute 🥰 I wish I had more of them - especially would like to have some in King's Gold (mine unfortunately are just boring basic colors (Jet Black and Blue)).

[InesF]

+1 👍 for the nice review @OCArt

So, they came in packs of two different colours?

[yazeh]

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3 hours ago, InesF said:

So, they came in packs of two different colours?

Probably Blue and Black came as doubles, i.e. Blue/Blue or Black/Black.

 

These pairs exist - Blue/Burgundy, Peacock Blue/Brown, Blue/Lavender, and Lavender/Grey.  

 

Packs with Kings Gold surely existed.