Old Quink

My wife was cleaning out a closet and found a bottle of (I'm guessing) 25 year old ink. It went with the Parker 51 we found a couple of weeks ago.

The price is $4.00 if that helps with a date.

It's 2/3 empty. I assume the safest course of action would be to throw it out, but I thought I'd ask.

If it's super-chrome toss it out, if it's regular quink ink and there isn't anything growing on top of the ink it's fine to use.

I have a couple of partial bottles that were my Dad's. I use them very sparingly.

I regularly use 70 year old Quink. Good stuff ... our friend syngent got some of it too.

Super-Chrome -- NO

I've got a cuple of bottles of SuperChrome. One of these days I'll try it with a sacrificial dip nib!

nemo said:

I regularly use 70 year old Quink. Good stuff ... our friend syngent got some of it too.

Super-Chrome -- NO

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I have large quantities of old quink.... great stuff

I have a bottle of decades old Quink. Price tag says 1.39. I added a bit of distilled water and have been using it in one of my Pilot Metropolitans. Great stuff! I also have a bottle of new Quink that I'll compare with at some point. Quink just seems like an easier ink to use compared to my Noodlers BBK. BBK seems a little testy if not used regularly (read daily).