First Bottled Ink?

[arunmadhav]

Camel Royal Blue was mine.

[inkstainedruth]

For fountain pen use, it was Quink Black (as part of the Urban set that comes with cartridges, a converter, and a bottle of ink); prior to that it was Quink Washable Blue and Permanent Blue cartridges.

But before I used FPs, back in high school and college, it was Higgins India ink, and some sort of (possibly also Higgins) sepia/brown ink for dip pens; the sepia/brown stuff was particularly nice for drawing with a crowquill, especially on fabric like off-white muslin. And then Kohl-i-noor ink for my Rapidograph set.

Interesting set of responses, particularly from people who *didn't* start with the black/blue/blue-black route for bottled ink.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[sparetimefun]

Noodler's Baystate Blue. Totally Love it!

 

So you must me mindful when handling ... similar thing when dealing with a baby.

Be careful and great joy ensues!

[auto winder]

Pelikan 4001 Blue-black. I bought my first bottle 25 years ago, and still use it frequently.

[hungh]

Diamine Twilight. It's a nice, professional-ish color and shades so prettily.

[joshsrn]

Noodler's Black - a pretty common first ink I'm sure. My first color was Noodler's Baystate Blue. It was impossible for me to resist a blue that brilliant.

[siroast]

The first bottle that I have ever used was a Caran D' Ache Purple (obliged by Rosey due to the fact that private schools had to use purple or violet ink) nowdays out of circulation. It is very similar to nowdays Waterman Tender Purple.

[DonaSang]

My first bottle ink was a Parker Quink Blue.

[Sailor Kenshin]

When you began using bottled ink, what was the first bottled ink that you ever bought and in what color?

 

My first bottled ink was Osmiroid ink in blue.

I can't remember!

 

I know I had bottles of Parker Blue-Black and Quink Washable blue, but NO IDEA how or where or when I got them. I still have one of the empties.

 

There are also hazy memories of Sheaffer Burgundy, Black and Gray, but none of the bottles.

 

I need to go lie down.

[Pen Nut]

Parker Blue washable, many years ago but can still re call getting it from Woolworths with my father.

[ISW_Kaputnik]

Not entirely sure, but almost certainly it was Parker Blue-Black Quink. I liked it well enough until I discovered it wasn't waterproof.

[Biff]

For me it was two bottles of Cross ink - one of black and one of blue. I bought them in 1997 at Daly's pen shop (location now about to close - in October). I'm still using them, though I combined them earlier this year when I stupidly broke the cap off the bottle of blue. Good ink.

Edited September 27, 2013 by Nicolas_Rieussec

[Seele]

Reading this thread makes me feel old! At the time, fountain pens were nothing special, just another writing instrument, bottled inks were plentiful at every stationery shop. It was the early 1970s I think, while my mother preferred cartridges I never got to like them, so I used bottled inks, not caring much about the colour since it's just for making legible marks on sheets of paper. The first bottle was probably a Hero 202 blue-black which is still in production, and interestingly, available at a stationer's in the city. Since then it was a situation of "oops; out of ink again. Better run down to the shops and get another bottle"... of whatever they had. So I have been through many bottle of various brands, including English-made Quinks (still have a bottle of black, old recipe with Solv-X), and a Pelikan 4001 blue-black I bought perhaps 30 years ago, and I still hate it, which probably explains why it's still about half full.

[stevekolt]

Fairly new to the sickness (2 years or so)...Iroshizuku kon-peki for me.

[zchen]

Ostrich Carbon Black~

[Juicyjones]

I just don't think I could ever remember what it was, it was so long ago!

[lovementos]

My first bottled ink was also Parker Quink Black. It came with the Pilot 78G I ordered

[Seele]

Ostrich Carbon Black~

 

That's cool! Ostrich still makes some carbon pigment inks; according to my notes there are:

 

331, 531, 908, and 918.

 

I wonder how different they are, as I understand that they are at different price-points.

[lahlahlaw]

My first bottle was Black Swan in Australian Roses, I love that it is the color of wine. In fact, I just put some in my freshly-restored red Esterbrook Transitional J - a perfect match!