What d’you think about that? That’s not a repair you see very often! The surprising thing is that the piece of rough cord was actually pretty tightly tied on there. Seems that the sac held ink. Sadly, the ink that was used had more of the characteristics of gloss paint, so cleaning the section, feed and nib is still ongoing.
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That must have been one desperate person.
Hi Linda,
I don’t know what induces the state of mind to enable that sort of repair. “I’ll just fix this valuable pen with this piece of string…”
Regards,
Deb