Thank you, thank you! Wonderful! I used Skrip Washable Black all through the 1960s. With the Topwell bottle.

I grew up in the sixties and seventies and until my senior year in high school, cartridge pens (usually Sheaffer) were the standard. Funny thing is, I can remember in junior high that my Spanish teacher used to keep a quart of Skrip in her cabinet, and for a penny any of the students could use a provided syringe to refill their cartridges. Can't see any teacher doing that now!

Man, I was trying to get rid of the fountain pen bug and I was sober for 1 year and now you show up.

Come back! This is one of the best fountain pen channels on youtube!

I remember in grade school that every single classroom had a 32 oz. bottle of Sheaffer's Skrip and one or more bottles with the inkwell on the side. I still do not think that a better ink bottle was ever designed or made!

The yellow box stirred up a lot of good memories for me. I received a Sheaffer TARGA fountain pen as a present in the early 1980s and I used to buy Sheaffer ink to use. The Blue Black and Jet Black were my favorites. Over the years Sheaffer changed hands several times. It seems they do not produce the Jet Black anymore! The packaging nowadays are not as eye-catching as the yellow boxes were.

Great video! I’ve always been interested in vintage ink and inkwells.

As stated, brown-label Skrip dates from the late 1930s. Fun Fact: A bottle is on the family's desk in "A Christmas Story", set in 1940. I love that attention to detail. Unlike the movie "Annie", set in 1933, in which Miss Hannigan kept her bathtub gin in modern Skrip master ink bottles.

Been a fan of Sheaffer Skrip ever since my first bottle of blue-black in around 1983. And of the inkwell bottle since the same time. I've recently found a purple ink, same name as the ink Nick Stewart came out with a while back, but the brand, not ink name. It was sold for writing checks, and purportedly as permanent as the Warden inks from Noodler's (maybe not laser resistant. 😁) And even changes color when tampered with. Have you ever come across anything like this? It seems possibly 1940s or 50s, based on the lettering on the bottle.

Wow I had no idea they shipped images of letters during WWII! Any recommendations for books/ articles on ink history? I am really curious now.

PS-the Skrip bottles with the side well was introduced to go with Sheaffer's 'touchdown' pens...

I just got a few full bottles of ChemOpure era Permanent Blue Black. To my surprise, a Q-tip swab of it looks almost the same as the current Skrip version made overseas. Can this old ink still be good after all these years? Guess so. Thanks to your video I can date my bottles to 1939-42 and that #24 means ink #2 and 4 oz size. Much appreciated!

Just so you know there is currently a full 32oz plastic bottle of blue on ebay. If you were interested in picking up another one. I saw it while browsing for some blue black skrip.

Do you have a favorite Scheaffer('s) vintage ink that you utilize? Great tidbit about pre-1964 with the " 's " on the end of the name! Was wondering why some pens had that and others did not.

I recently got 2 of 60’s sheaffer inks someone knows if is still secure use this ink in pens? Cause I know the bottles are unusual for me but I don’t know if is better use it or empty and later put other actual ink inside.

Can you recommend me a black ink that works well in a Kawecosport M and a Lamy F? I wanna try the pilot take sumi, Do you recommend it for my pens?

I have a bottle still in the box. Red box does not say skrip. What can you tell me about it? It was given to me by the owner of an antique store that went out of business locally.

I’ve always found bottles of skrip ink, but they always solidify into a putty like substance. Every bottle I’ve encountered is like this, do you know why this happens?

Do you have any information on bottled Sanford's fountain pen ink. I found 3 bottles today and just wondering about them.

Do you know the basic formula of Fountain ink? I was just thinking it might be fun to try making my own ink.

What year was 42 blue made frank in Oswego ill

The earliest version was a disaster. Sheaffer had widely tested it, by having its employees use it in their own pens. It was indeed clog-proof. But those employees had only ever used Sheaffer in their pens. When the ink was put on the market, it clogged people's pens terribly, because they'd used various brands of ink before trying Skrip, and people didn't flush their pens before changing inks. When the Prussian Blue dye in the Skrip touched the residue of a different brand of ink, it formed serious clogs. Sheaffer withdrew the product, and reformulated it.

I feel like you should be wearing a HAZMAT suit. 😆

Wonderful! Where, may I ask, do you collect your vintage inks from? As a resident of Iowa, I've never found any vintage Schaefer products here at any flea markets or garage sales. 😢