That case of Super Quink Diamonds is the most satisfying thing on the Internet.

Hérbin (in France) recently made larger bottles of ink with vintage labels, and the caps sealed by dipping them in wax. They were sold in gift sets with a little ceramic ink-cup, like the ones used in the desks in French schools, back when violet ink was the standard (because it used the cheapest dye). You might find vintage French master inks in wine bottles. These were used during WWI and WWII, when new bottles were scarce.

Sheaffer's Skrip had tiny samples too, but I've never seen one. According to a vintage print ad that had an illustration of the tiny bottle, Sheaffer's had exhibit trucks that travelled the country. People were encouraged to visit the trucks to see how Sheaffer's pens and inks were made, and to have their Sheaffer's pens cleaned and repaired. And everyone who visited would be given a little sample of Skrip.

I really like your channel as I just discovered it and subscribed. Love the look at the Parker vintage fountain pen ink. Great video!

Found your video looking for Superchrome info, and I enjoyed this video immensely. I am a new subscriber.

I am glad to found your channel

Great informative video, thank you for sharing the knowledge😀

Thank You for your videos and info about Parker ink. I started collecting them now also. I was happy to see the box for the Micro Film ink, I have a near full bottle and now I know what to look for in a box, also I have one of the 16 Oz bottles in a fair box. I also found the earlier ink and box for the Parker 51 only ink, and then I found a box and nearly full bottle of the superchrome ink. This is interesting and fun. Anyway, thanks for getting me interested due to your videos.

I actually use Parker Microfilm Black ink for drawing comics. (I know I am ruining the ink's value, which it has little value since there is so much of it around)

I started using blue Quink in the sixties as an alternative to Skrip blue, which I preferred. It's still a great ink though not 'fashionable'.

Very interesting!! Best regards from Brazil, Mário.

I'd love if you could do a video on the look of all these vintage inks you have, I've seen nobody else go on about using these old inks on KZfaq. Maybe you could talk about iron gall inks too, and show the colour of fresh vs old ink. They still seem fairly affordable, at least if you buy the bulk jars. I've no idea why or how an ink would be considered more "photographic", unless it has to do with the old film being more sensitive to UV somehow.

I loved this video, I wish it had more close ups of the inks though

Very very good sir

So glad I came across your channel, very informative, design seems to go with the zeitgeist, I am fascinated with the vintage inks. I would agree with a previous comment that more close ups would be nice. How many of the old inks have you tried and what are your impressions, perhaps you have already done a video like that. Anyway thank you, New sub

It's your fault. 😁 I've started getting and using more vintage fountain pen inks since discovering your blogs. On my fixed disability income, they can be as reasonable in price to some modern inks, and they seem to "play nice" with more types of paper than many today. Been a couple of years. When are other vintage inks going to be showcased?

When you run out of this, won't you be sad? How do you then have the will to use these old inks? That might be why you have so much of it.

So you collect ink but don't use them? Where's the sense in that. When you buy ink you're supposed to use it.

I've read that there are "permanent" versions of Parker Quink inks called "Super Quink", however I haven't seen any modern Parker ink box/bottle with such a name ("Super Quink") written on it so far, but just "Quink". How to differentiate the "Super Quink" (permanent ink) bottles from the standard "Quink" (non-permanent ink) ones? Or is it the same ink that some people call it "Super Quink" when in fact it is just "Quink"? Maybe they refer it to as "Super Quink" when there's no legend "washable" written on the box/bottle (black, blue-black) and as "Quink" when there's the legend "washable" written on the box/bottle (blue)? It's just so confusing!

When your packaging is prettier than your ink.....