Vintage Bottle

Vintage Parker Quink pen ink bottle. It is empty with ink residue in it. The bottom has raised lettering that says Parker 59 CC, and another mark that I cannot read. The label is peeling down a bit at the top. A fun and nice collector piece. Here is a snip from the internet with a little about the company: Quink stands for Quisumbing Ink. However, Parker states that the name is an amalgam of "quick and ink". The Quink Quink was first marketed in 1931. The resulting product was strongly alkaline and contained isopropyl alcohol, a solvent not previously used in inks. At that time, most pen barrels and caps were manufactured using pyralin, which was often damaged by the alcohol contained in Quink.