Valuation?

[Brilliant Bill]

I'm looking for opinions on the value of these two bottles of Skrip from a different time. This is not a sales solicitation; I just want to get an idea how to price them when I do sell.

While I've had them for some years, I don't know how I came by them. My impetus for buying them was nostalgia as I used these as a child and so fondly recall the little inkwell contained inside the bottle. I have no idea how old they are, although the 15-cent sticker on one suggests quite old. There is ink in the bottles, but I don't know if it would be useable.

Soon I'll be placing most of my ink collection on sale, about 70 bottles. Also curious about pricing for Lamy Dark Lilac, Lamy Petrol and Mont Blanc Shakespeare Red Velvet. One guy on ebay is pricing the Lamy Dark Lilac at $300, and I think that's a bit out of line.

Thanks!
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[TSherbs]

no idea about prices, sorry

But what does "successor to ink" mean?

[Jon Szanto]

But what does "successor to ink" mean?

[Chrissy]

If I ever want to check prices of pen related items before I sell them I first search on ebay then check "Sold items" and search again.
It's one thing listing them for sale and quite another actually selling them.
Now that there are thousands of inks available everywhere prices seem to be dropping to a lower level. Although I recently saw one chancer who listed a bottle of Pelikan Edelstein Onyx for £130. I asked him if he had added a zero on the end by mistake.

[kazoolaw]

But what does "successor to ink" mean?

Skrip, it's not ink, it's a fluid.
A writing fluid.
With RC-35. A guarded formula.
Makes all pens write better.
Forever fluid. Cannot clog your pen.
Dries quicker, writes instantly, without stutter or blot.
Who wouldn't buy two bottles?
After all, it's Skrip.

Not to be confused with Quink.
With wonder-working solv-x.
Full-bodied, extra-quick drying.
Gives positive protection to all surfaces it contacts, flushes away all sediment and gummy deposits left by other writing fluids.

Skrip & Quink and the battle of the copywriters.

[TSherbs]

"ink" versus "writing fluid"

Love it! /s

[Sailor Kenshin]

I'm looking for opinions on the value of these two bottles of Skrip from a different time. This is not a sales solicitation; I just want to get an idea how to price them when I do sell.

While I've had them for some years, I don't know how I came by them. My impetus for buying them was nostalgia as I used these as a child and so fondly recall the little inkwell contained inside the bottle. I have no idea how old they are, although the 15-cent sticker on one suggests quite old. There is ink in the bottles, but I don't know if it would be useable.

Soon I'll be placing most of my ink collection on sale, about 70 bottles. Also curious about pricing for Lamy Dark Lilac, Lamy Petrol and Mont Blanc Shakespeare Red Velvet. One guy on ebay is pricing the Lamy Dark Lilac at $300, and I think that's a bit out of line.

Thanks!
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That sticker could be an aftermarket price (ie: marked down). The other big forum also has a biiig thread on Sheaffer ink bottle history.

The ink might be usable.

[Thom.]

... The ink might be usable.

Yes. But unlike great old pens, they're just old chemical mixes.

[Cyril]

I like to compare the two- writing fluid and the writing ink and see what makes the most to improve my writing then I go for the fluid or the ink.
Quite interesting topic here.

[welch]

I'm looking for opinions on the value of these two bottles of Skrip from a different time. This is not a sales solicitation; I just want to get an idea how to price them when I do sell.

While I've had them for some years, I don't know how I came by them. My impetus for buying them was nostalgia as I used these as a child and so fondly recall the little inkwell contained inside the bottle. I have no idea how old they are, although the 15-cent sticker on one suggests quite old. There is ink in the bottles, but I don't know if it would be useable.

Soon I'll be placing most of my ink collection on sale, about 70 bottles. Also curious about pricing for Lamy Dark Lilac, Lamy Petrol and Mont Blanc Shakespeare Red Velvet. One guy on ebay is pricing the Lamy Dark Lilac at $300, and I think that's a bit out of line.

Thanks!
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The 42, Washable Blue would date from the 1950s, since it advertises the Snorkel. I used only Shaeffer's Skrip from about 1960 onward and do not remember any Snorkel advertising on the boxes. In addition, Sheaffer would have begun pushing the PfM as of about 1959.

For a price if you are selling? Check EBay. If you have unopened bottles, then price toward the high side of whatever you find.

Incidentally, I sometimes write from a full bottle of Sheaffer's Permanent Blue. It is good stuff...seems a bit more concentrated, and I have guessed some of it had evaporated over the last 65 or more years. A very dark blue, and hates to let itself be washed off. That's why our mothers insisted we use Sheaffer's washable inks, although it will wash off of hands and out of clothes. It is not, of course, an ink that binds itself to paper (or clothing) fibers.

[welch]

But what does "successor to ink" mean?

Skrip, it's not ink, it's a fluid.
A writing fluid.
With RC-35. A guarded formula.
Makes all pens write better.
Forever fluid. Cannot clog your pen.
Dries quicker, writes instantly, without stutter or blot.
Who wouldn't buy two bottles?
After all, it's Skrip.

Not to be confused with Quink.
With wonder-working solv-x.
Full-bodied, extra-quick drying.
Gives positive protection to all surfaces it contacts, flushes away all sediment and gummy deposits left by other writing fluids.

Skrip & Quink and the battle of the copywriters.

Bravo, Kaz! But I didn't think you were old enough to remember Skrip versus Quink!