Ink or Writing Fluid

For this week's Vintage Thingies Thursday, hosted by Suzanne @ ColoradoLady, I have some more things from my dad's basement. He gave me the ink bottle and the pens at different times over the years. The fountain pens were his father's, and he remembers him changing the nibs when they got worn down. I have other old fountain pens, but they are the kind a cartridge would go in. I'll dig them out for a future VTT. The ink, aka writing liquid, was discovered in one of 2 old dressers in the basement. I'm pretty sure they were put down there 45 years ago with all of this stuff filling them up already, which means it's all pre-1965. I bet my mom never even knew what was in them, except for the one bottom drawer where she kept wrapping paper!

I used to have these displayed with my antique printer's box among all sorts of interesting paraphernalia. I'm embarrassed to say I have become my father, because I had to pull them out of a drawer in a dresser (!) to photograph them for you. I have to think of a way to display them. If I had a big house with an entry I'd put a small desk there and do a little vignette as if someone had been writing in a journal. But I don't, so I can't.

In my search for any information on Schaeffer's Skrip Writing Liquid, I found this old advertisement. It shows how there was a little thing in the mouth of the jar so you weren't dunking the pen all the way in. Schaeffer's also made pens, in addition to ink. I just don't get calling it writing liquid, although that's what it is, I think it's a little goofy.
Those are my Vintage Thingies for this Thursday. I bet you've got something nifty and old and don't even realize that there are all of these vintage folks who would love to see it. Go on a hunt and come join us next week at ColoradoLady.