Vintage Parker Quink Circa 1940 (I Think)

[PolarMoonman]

 

This is not the bottle I have but it's the same style...

 

 

 

Just noticed that I spelled "hesitating" wrong....

 

GENERAL DESCRIPTION

 

 

Daily Writer:

♦Yes, a nice color that performs quite well....

♦ An incredibly smooth ink...

 

 

USES:

 

 

Business:

♦No, too bright

♦Not good for professional correspondents.

 

Illustrations/Graphics:

♦Good opacity

♦Some shading, not a lot...

♦Nice color, good saturation...

 

Students:

♦Personal notes, not for assignments.

 

Personal:

♦Absolutely, an amazing ink

♦Fast drying and super smooth

 

 

PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE & CHARACTERISTICS:

 

 

Flow:

♦consistent and smooth

 

Nib Dry-Out:

♦Nonexistent

 

Starting:

♦Always starts

 

Lubrication:

♦Very well lubricated.

 

Nib Creep:

♦No creeping

 

Staining:

♦a little bit but not much...

 

Clogging:

♦None

 

Bleed Through:

♦A little bit, but not a lot on cheap office paper.

♦None on thicker paper.

 

Show Through:

♦Yes, on cheap paper

♦No, on thicker paper.

 

Feathering/Wooly Lines:

♦None

 

Smear/Dry Time:

♦1-3 Seconds on glossy and regular paper

 

Water Resistance:

♦Poor water resistance.

 

THE LOOK:

 

Presence:

♦very deep, but not too dark

♦royal purple

 

Saturation:

♦highly saturated

 

Shading:

♦Modern Quink shades better...

 

 

MATERIALS:

 

Paper:

♦Cheap notebook paper.

 

Pen:

♦Parker Frontier

[amberleadavis]

Did the bottle describe the ink as black or as purple? Thank you for the review.

[PolarMoonman]

Did the bottle describe the ink as black or as purple? Thank you for the review.

 

The bottle I got didn't have a label on it, I only knew it was quink because it said so on the cap....

[amberleadavis]

Well, thank you. It's very pretty.

[georges zaslavsky]

looks good will work well in a vintage duofold

[DanielCoffey]

Since the bottle is labelled back, it has either broken down, or more likely been refilled with something else.

[PolarMoonman]

Since the bottle is labelled back, it has either broken down, or more likely been refilled with something else.

 

That's a random picture from the internet of the style of the bottle. I didn't have a camera when I wrote this review so I had to find a picture on the internet. And I could not find a purple bottle in that style so I used what I could find.

[inkstainedruth]

I have a couple of bottles of vintage Quink brown. The bottles look similar to yours, but have metal caps. The 4 oz. bottle didn't have a label, and a q-tip swab looked dark red, but when I put it in a pen it was definitely brown. I liked it so much I got a mostly full 2 oz. bottle on Ebay a couple of months ago.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Parker Quink Turquoise]

The ink Parker made was labeled Violet.Have a few bottles myself in the same style as the one with the black ink pictured at the top of the thread.

[Buzzie]

+1 Yep, it surely is VIOLET - Actually, Quink "Washable Violet", and it includes Solv-X. That accounts for its excellent flow qualities, lubrication, self-cleaning, etc. "Washable" intended for school and home use. "Permanent" for records and documents (not "bulletproof" on paper; rather, not intended washable from clothes, etc.).

Parker colors available at that time:

• 5 "WASHABLE" Home/School - Black, Blue, Brown, Green, and Violet
• 4 "PERMANENT" Records/Documents - Black, Blue-Black, Royal Blue, Red

I have some of all except red, and it is a supreme pleasure to match a 70 year old Quink with a 70+ P51 or a 60+ P61. A window to the past. Like a vintage Burgundy, almost, sorta, kinda.

 

Aloha

[Floreat]

I have some black Quink that is about 30 years old, and when I wash it out of pens the water turns into that shade of violet/purple - so maybe your ink was originally black after all!

[Buzzie]

Look on the bottom of the bottle. At about the 6 o'clock position, there will be a single-digit number, set apart from the other markings.

This is the Parker date stamp, exactly like they put on their pens and nibs. They even put the "dots" to indicate the calendar quarter that it was produced. Yours is a beautiful Violet Use it with glee.