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Apotheosis Extremely Rare

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Sometime ago, I was reading a review of this glass nibbed wonder here and suddenly had this nagging curiosity to seek one out. When I saw this one on the sale board, I just had to get it. Sadly - it was banged up and in bad shape.

 

Missing Jewel Cap

http://i845.photobucket.com/albums/ab19/yuckkie/HARO%20GLASS%20NIB%20FP/DSC02391.jpg

 

Broken Cap Clip

http://i845.photobucket.com/albums/ab19/yuckkie/HARO%20GLASS%20NIB%20FP/DSC02394.jpg

 

Dead sac with what i suppose is leftovers

http://i845.photobucket.com/albums/ab19/yuckkie/HARO%20GLASS%20NIB%20FP/DSC02398.jpg

 

Not too long after, I was fortunate enough to speak with Steve from All Write Now who agreed to help me with the restoration work. He claims he is not a professional restorer - but in my books, he did a wonderful job and that's good enough for me ! As you can see, he replaced the broken clip with an accomodation clip and I did not wish to have it reblacken but instead just to have it shined back to a nice brown.

http://i845.photobucket.com/albums/ab19/yuckkie/HARO%20GLASS%20NIB%20FP/DSC03906.jpghttp://i845.photobucket.com/albums/ab19/yuckkie/HARO%20GLASS%20NIB%20FP/DSC03926.jpg

http://i845.photobucket.com/albums/ab19/yuckkie/HARO%20GLASS%20NIB%20FP/DSC03924.jpg

 

He replaced the jewel cap for me as well. Nothing fancy - just as long as it covers the hole.

http://i845.photobucket.com/albums/ab19/yuckkie/HARO%20GLASS%20NIB%20FP/DSC03911.jpg

 

I was happy that the markings were as visable as ever !

http://i845.photobucket.com/albums/ab19/yuckkie/HARO%20GLASS%20NIB%20FP/DSC03909.jpg

 

The nib was rough and he had it smoothened down to a western fine for me.

http://i845.photobucket.com/albums/ab19/yuckkie/HARO%20GLASS%20NIB%20FP/DSC03920.jpg

 

When I got it back i was so excited I just had to ink it so I pulled out my bottle of BB Quink and filled her up !

http://i845.photobucket.com/albums/ab19/yuckkie/HARO%20GLASS%20NIB%20FP/DSC03937.jpg

 

It writes amazingly well and just glides on paper and lays a consistent flow of ink !!

No tooth and no need to worry about feedback (well, obviously).

http://i845.photobucket.com/albums/ab19/yuckkie/HARO%20GLASS%20NIB%20FP/DSC03944.jpg

(Now - if only I can get my hands on a Spors cresent filler)

 

Steve - if you're reading this, thanks again for all your help !!

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"Oey !! Gimme back my pen !"

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*snicker* I was just thinking "if I could only get my hands on a nice Haro!" :roflmho:

 

Dynamite looking pen BTW, Looks very enjoyable to write with!

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Interesting review--thanks! I haven't seen many reviews of glass-point pens, so the writing sample and impressions were very useful.

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Well, congrats; you effort broth one pen back to life. I had Spors pen with glass nib and they are very difficult to restore because of very strong glue used in production.

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Thanks all for looking and thank you Bluecloud for that additional piece of information (which appears to be the only one available online).

Glad everyone enjoyed the review :)

 

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Very nice! :thumbup:

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What a neat looking pen! I've never seen one of those before.

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it amazes me to hear "no tooth", i would expect that from a glass nib. well, i'm thinking of my glass dip pen...!!! :hmm1:

very cool pen. thx for the review!

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