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Then There Was "Peacock Blue" Ink



 
 
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Old April 29th 09, 02:35 PM posted to alt.bitterness,misc.kids,alt.education,misc.education
Way Back Jack
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Default Then There Was "Peacock Blue" Ink

The nuns grudgingly tolerated ball-point pens, and only in
emergencies, preferred that we use fountain pens, and insisted on blue
or black ink. 1950s. There was a brand called "Skrip." After using
blue, black, blue-black, and royal blue, it was a real kick to learn
that Skrip made a flavor called "Peacock Blue" which was a gorgeous
turquoise. So the whole damn school started using it. It's a miracle
that the nuns tolerated it, because they liked to rain on your parade.
If something made you happy, they usually prohibited it. Little
pleasures and freedoms were few-and-far-between.

The most amazing thing about those days of fountain pens in elementary
school was that no one, as best I can recall, spilled a bottle of ink.
Otherwise there would've been an execution.
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Old April 29th 09, 05:41 PM posted to misc.kids,alt.education,misc.education
Rosalie B.
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Default Then There Was "Peacock Blue" Ink

(Way Back Jack) wrote:

The nuns grudgingly tolerated ball-point pens, and only in
emergencies, preferred that we use fountain pens, and insisted on blue
or black ink. 1950s. There was a brand called "Skrip." After using
blue, black, blue-black, and royal blue, it was a real kick to learn
that Skrip made a flavor called "Peacock Blue" which was a gorgeous
turquoise. So the whole damn school started using it. It's a miracle
that the nuns tolerated it, because they liked to rain on your parade.
If something made you happy, they usually prohibited it. Little
pleasures and freedoms were few-and-far-between.

The most amazing thing about those days of fountain pens in elementary
school was that no one, as best I can recall, spilled a bottle of ink.
Otherwise there would've been an execution.


I was in elementary school (although not one taught by nuns) between
1943 and 1950. We used fountain pens and not ball point pens. It
always amuses me when people call a ball point pen an "ink pen". They
aren't. They are ball point pens.

We each had our bottle of ink to fill the pens. The bottle had a
little side reservoir - you tipped the bottle to the side (with the
cap firmly on) and filled the reservoir and then opened the bottle and
put your pen into the reservoir and sucked the ink up into it with a
little lever on the side that compressed the bladder inside the pen..
We had ink wells in the desks, but the ink bottle didn't fit in it so
they went inside the desk which had a lid that raised to allow access
to what was inside. The seat for your desk was attached to the front
of the desk of the person behind you.

In addition to the Skrip ink, I remember using Esterbrook pens which
came with different pen points (thin and thick) for different size of
writing line. For a little extra you could get your name engraved in
gold on the side. I lost 12 Esterbrook pens with my name on them when
I was in 6th grade.

 




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