Parker Bottles Through The Years

[wvbeetlebug]

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.

[Matth13]

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.

[pajaro]

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.

[Matth13]

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

[white_lotus]

 

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.

[william2001]

Nice photos

[ANM]

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.

[ANM]

 

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.

[white_lotus]

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.

[Florida Blue]

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/

[Matth13]

 

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/

 

Great review! You chose good pens to run the ink through.