Dating Sheaffer / Skrip Ink Bottles And Boxes

[markh]

I have a variety of old Sheaffer inks in bottles. Different boxes, different bottles, etc...Anyone know of a source for information on how to date them??

 

Right now I'm using Sheaffer blue/black in an old MontBlanc 244 with a nicely flexible EF nib. People talk about shading - different colors depth at different parts of each letter - this ink/pen really shows that. The opposite of the Noodlers/PR extra dense and dark inks. The ink in this case is Sheaffer Skrip, in a yellow box. The bottle has no well.

 

But this is only one vintage - I have others. So I'm looking for a more general resource, if one exists...

 

thnx,

 

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[welch]

I don't know of a resource, but I used Skrip in the late '50s and '60s.

 

- "with RC-35" was '60s. Used to buy it in the school supplies section of a drug store.

 

- late '50s boxes advertised the Snorkel, but not RC-35. Some of them claimed that Skrip was "Chemopure". I have a couple, with boxes saying that the Snork "takes the dunk out of filling". (Clear that Sheaffer and Parker were competing for the cleanest filling system, and both, probably, against the ballpoint.)

 

- In the late '60s, Textron bought Sheaffer's from the Sheaffer family. Boxes and bottles will mention Textron.

 

- Later Skrip, the last of the Fort Madison brew, came in a red box. Same topwell bottle, but the cap was gold-colored. I have one. Box and bottle are marked "Sheaffer", rather than "Sheaffer's". Has a white dot on the box, the label on the bottle, and on the cap.

[Chrissy]

I really like those red box Sheaffer ink bottles with the gold coloured "jar style" one turn caps, rather than the original screw on caps. They are easier to open and close and the threads don't get all rusted.

[carlos.q]

Check out this post:

 

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/240126-sheaffer-inkbottles-through-time/?p=2603363

[markh]

Check out this post:

 

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/240126-sheaffer-inkbottles-through-time/?p=2603363

 

Thanks - a picture worth 10,000 words.....

 

The bottle I'm using (of which I think I have close to a dozen) is the middle of the top row, so per the text of the poster (corrected from the image) is 1980s. My bottles have no well in them.

 

The Blue-Black was definitely a "vintage" look. AFAIK, unlike any currently produced ink - not enough impact, too subtle. We're not in a subtle age.....

 

 

 

 

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