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So my best friend gifted me with a most beautiful bottle of J Herbin 1670 stormy gray and I haven't a clue as to how to open the wax seal and then how to cap it afterward. I did a search and came up with nothing. Does anyone know the trick? I almost hate to use it for fear of butchering it.

 

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The wax seal is decorative. The cap is covered in some sort of resin, and simply unscrews. The cord is wrapped around the base of the screw stem and not attached to the cap in any way beyond simple compression from the screwed down cap.

 

Just turn the cap counter-clockwise and enjoy.

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I had the same question when I received my first. I *almost* tried breaking the decorative wax with a foil cutter. Thank goodness I tried turning it like every other screw on cap. :)

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Pedstran?

Pedestrian ?

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Pedestrian ?

of course I meant pedestrian...how pedestrian of my spell checker

"You mustn’t be afraid to dream a little bigger darling.” "Forever optimistic with a theme and purpose." "My other pen is oblique and dippy."

 

 

 

 

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The wax seal is decorative. The cap is covered in some sort of resin, and simply unscrews. The cord is wrapped around the base of the screw stem and not attached to the cap in any way beyond simple compression from the screwed down cap.

 

Just turn the cap counter-clockwise and enjoy.

great...I had no idea what to expect and like FayeV I pictured some kind of knife trick...thanks everyone

especially the school teachers among us

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The wax cracked on mine. But I just unscrewed the cap like any other ink bottle.

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The first bottles (of the first red) had a real wax on the cap which was also somewhat brittle. That was all changed later. Even the first bottles of the second version (of red) had a plastic wax imitation covering on the cap.

 

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I had the same question when I received my first. I *almost* tried breaking the decorative wax with a foil cutter. Thank goodness I tried turning it like every other screw on cap. :)

 

I did that. :(

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of course I meant pedestrian...how pedestrian of my spell checker

 

 

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