Ink Bottle' Shapes

[DerMann]

Vintage Skrip bottles

[shostakovich]

Another solution which has been solved by "The Writing Desk." (UK website) Buy a larger plastic refill botlle of Diamine ink and fill your bottle up a bit (or a lot) so you have no trouble filling pen. They say on the website that the plastic bottle is also good for travelling. Not sure if this means its relaible on aircraft? The ink is slightly better value too.

[thibaulthalpern]

Another solution which has been solved by "The Writing Desk." (UK website) Buy a larger plastic refill botlle of Diamine ink and fill your bottle up a bit (or a lot) so you have no trouble filling pen. They say on the website that the plastic bottle is also good for travelling. Not sure if this means its relaible on aircraft? The ink is slightly better value too.

 

I don't see why any ink bottle wouldn't be reliable on the airplane. After all, all ink bottles have to travel by plane to get to some destination before being sold. The only isue is whether it'll break and that means packing the ink bottle well. Hand carry, of course.

[lapis]

Now don't get me wrong but I don't care all that much about the bottle.

Main thing is I like the ink (for all possible reasons).

If the bottle is almost empty and I can't get out the last few drops, I just buy another new bottle.

If I don't like the ink, it can even be half full and I'll chuck it away anyhow.

 

Chuck

[Jimmy James]

I see a long future of buying Levenger ink for me because I love their bottle (not to mention their Skies of Blue).

 

I can't wait to finish up a bottle and be able to use it for some Legal Lapis.

[wvbeetlebug]

Decisions. Decisions. I'm a huge fan of the vintage Skrip bottles and I really like how the Noodler's bottles store and line up, but I'm drawn between the Private Reserve bottles (short wide, large opening for big nibs) and the Waterman bottles because you can tip them and they stay.

 

I'm going with Private Reserve.

[037]

 

I don't see why any ink bottle wouldn't be reliable on the airplane. After all, all ink bottles have to travel by plane to get to some destination before being sold. The only isue is whether it'll break and that means packing the ink bottle well. Hand carry, of course.

 

Hand carry is no longer allowed, at least not in Canada, what with the fluid bans and such. Had a bottle of Pilot confiscated just 3 days ago coming back from Vancouver.

As to carrying bottle ink (when it was allowed), ditto with filled fountain pens - the cabin is pressurized, leakage was never a problem for me, and I routinely carried 6-10 pens in my carry-on when I travel.

Wonder what would happen if they find out the combined ink volume in all the pens way exceeds the fluid-carry-on-ban limit?

off topic now...sorry

[LedZepGirl]

Old Skrip bottles with the well in them are the best.

[gyasko]

I like the MB shoe bottles, too. (What's conical about them?). I have a lot of old Skrip because i like the ink, but the bottles have never done anything for me.

 

[Maria]

Dear Kees,

 

As far as I know; Sheaffer Script glass bottled ink with the internal ink well, is no longer made and this to me has been a tragic; as that was one reason to buy it. Now its plastic and you can't even see into the bottle to know how far to lower the nib and keep the barrel from being an inky mess.

 

Now, I am scrambling to find bottles that used to hold Sheaffer Script inks; as nobody has such anymore.

(Got two-one 1950's vintage and another 1970's vintage).

 

Only thing decently close to the thing I wish for; is Speedball's Calligraphy ink that comes with their ink for dip pens.

 

Respectfully,

Maria

 

IMO, by far the most functional ink bottles are those with a separate ink well inside, the pre-Slovenian Sheaffer Skrip type. By turning them upside down you can use the ink almost to the last drop, and the procedure of filling the pen is pretty clean, in comparison.

 

One problem: The poll doesn’t seem to take this kind of bottle into account...

 

[Silke]

I didn't vote... because I don't know all the bottles listed.

The description means little to me.