Sheaffer Skrip Peacock Blue

[KenS]

I am a big fan of Peacock Blue also. I still have three or four bottles of the older stuff in the blue and yellow box, at least six bottles of the later production stuff in the red/burgundy box, and I bought five bottles of the Slovenian ink. I keep different pens filled with different aged inks. For instance I have a "26" Duofold Senior filled with the yellow box ink, the red/burgundy box stuff goes in my Montgrappa Symphony and a few others, while the new ink goes into one of my MB 146's, a MB 149, and whichever pen might come to hand.

While they are quite similar, there are color difference in all three inks.

 

Ken.

[Robert Hughes]

I find PR Daphne to be quite close to the old Peacock Blue. It's so bright it's like highlighter ink.

[OnPoint]

Shaeffer peacock is 237.84 on the chroma chart posted some time back in the Inky Thoughts section https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/in...showtopic=59674 or

http://www.rmimaging.com/projects/inks/inks.html takes you to the chart.

So Visconti Turquoise is 232, YOL is 229.77 Pelikan is 234.61, Waterman Southseas blue is 241 but Shaeffer Turq was not analized. Visually the samples given above show it to be almost identical though. As you can see by the numbers and the sample Waterman is bluer.

The chroma chart appears to have been removed at rmimaging.com. A shame, since we were having so much fun comparing inks.

 

[OnPoint]

The chroma chart owner at rmimaging.com says that the file has been restored (there were website changes that removed several things on the site).

[DerMann]

My friend has a pouch of a few Sheaffer cartridge pens, and I looked through a lit cluster of cartridges and found Peacock Blue on top. I thought for a second and remembered that it was fairly rare. I put it back in the case and put a blue-black cartridge in.

 

How rare is the stuff?

Edited July 25, 2008 by DerMann

[chancew1]

I was wasting time by looking around on eBay today and found some guy selling bottles of Peacock Blue. I remembered this thread and thought I'd post in case somebody was interested in some vintage ink.

 

Two bottles of blue

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...em=220265388418

 

Two bottles of blue

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...em=220265389055

 

bottles of blue, red, and black

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...em=220265390814

[oneloneman]

Hi,

 

I just saw this page on the Net and thought you guys and gals might find it interesting (if you've not already seen it).

 

Edited September 23, 2008 by oneloneman

[Tricia]

My friend has a pouch of a few Sheaffer cartridge pens, and I looked through a lit cluster of cartridges and found Peacock Blue on top. I thought for a second and remembered that it was fairly rare. I put it back in the case and put a blue-black cartridge in.

 

How rare is the stuff?

 

 

I know this is an older post, but I wanted to point out that ink in carts evaporate over time and that there's not a lot of use in keeping them too long. I have carts from ~20 years ago and they are about half-full. The peacock blue I have is, maybe, 3/5ths full. I've had others that were down to about 1/4th full. There may be a way to keep them from evaporating, but I don't know what it would be. (These have all been out of the light in a drawer.)

 

My advice is to use them and enjoy them, or give/sell them to those who will. (Or you can keep them for twenty years like I have... just in case. )

 

I'm not sure if they can be reconstituted by adding a few drops of distilled water with a syringe. Haven't tried it, but it might work.

Edited September 23, 2008 by Tricia

[georges zaslavsky]

I offered one bottle of 1996 peacok blue to my father because he liked sheaffer inks, my favorite blue is waterman's "bleu nuit" or waterman encre bleue effacable (washable ink) that I used from age 7 till 23 when I was studying. My father is pleased with the quality of this ink, ink flow and consistency are very good with this ink.

[welch]

More Sheaffer Peacock Blue than anyone could use...available on eBay at item 310180529988. A box of bottles!

[Larynxa]

This ink was the reason I started writing with a fountain pen. My first one was a yellow No Nonsense cartridge pen. The paler lemon yellow, not the more golden yellow that came along later.

 

I loved that Peacock Blue colour, and used it all the time, as my splotchy fingers attested.

 

A few years ago, I found one of my late uncle's high school textbooks. Turns out that he'd used Peacock Blue all the time when he was in high school, too. And that most of his doodles consisted of shapely female legs, with high heel shoes on the feet...just like most of my doodles. I wonder what Freud would make of that...

[EdwardHowland]

My favorite color! I used to think there was no equal. I thought I could see a difference between old Skrip Peacock and the new Sheaffer Turquoise. On second (or maybe 5th) look, I think they are almost identical.

 

If I find some time today, I'll do a sample of several and post a picture.

 

I compared the older version to a real peacock... perfect match.

[kilraughts]

By coincidence I obtained a bottle peacock blue recently. I do like this ink and now consider myself lucky to have obtained a bottle.

 

My bottle looks the same, I notice there is a angular baffle in bottle presumably to facilitate filling when ink level in bottle goes down.

[ThirdeYe]

By coincidence I obtained a bottle peacock blue recently. I do like this ink and now consider myself lucky to have obtained a bottle.

 

My bottle looks the same, I notice there is a angular baffle in bottle presumably to facilitate filling when ink level in bottle goes down.

 

That was what Sheaffer called the "Top Well", for the purpose of what you described. When the ink got low, you could tip the bottle upside down (with the cap on) to fill the little well and get more of the remaining ink out of the bottle. I like the design, personally. I prefer it to the little plastic inserts that come in some bottles these days that don't allow me to use large nibs.

[Kelly G]

Interesting ink for sure. I picked up a Snorkel at an estate sale. When I began restoring the pen I found it full of Peacock Blue Skrip; It was a challenge to clean the pen; the ink was persistent.

 

A couple of years ago I ran across two 4oz bottles (yellow & blue) of the stuff. One bottle was completely full, the other half full. They are setting on my shelf as I'm not particularly crazy about the color. Perhaps I should give it a try.

[tnmike1]

I find all my vintage Skrip on eBay. Have this plus washable blue and permanent blue black

[GreenMountain]

Shaeffer peacock is 237.84 on the chroma chart posted some time back in the Inky Thoughts section https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/in...showtopic=59674 or

http://www.rmimaging.com/projects/inks/inks.html takes you to the chart.

So Visconti Turquoise is 232, YOL is 229.77 Pelikan is 234.61, Waterman Southseas blue is 241 but Shaeffer Turq was not analized. Visually the samples given above show it to be almost identical though. As you can see by the numbers and the sample Waterman is bluer.

Mercy, are you still around? How the heck do people find out what chroma an ink is?

Thanks!