Aurora Optima Limited Edition Mare Blue Rollerball Pen for Sale

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Aurora Optima Limited Edition Mare Blue Rollerball Pen For Sale

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Aurora Optima Limited Edition Mare Blue Rollerball Pen:
$325.00

Aurora, Italy's largest pen maker, was founded in Turin in 1919, manufacturing very high quality hard rubber and overlay eye dropper, safety, and lever fill pens. Aurora began making celluloid plastic pens in 1925 and these pens, called the "Duplex", bore strong resemblance to the market leading Parker Duofold, having a black cap top and end cap and a ball-end washer clip.

The Aurora Mare Limited Edition Collection is the fourth in a series of bright colored marbled celluloid Optima Limiteds. The barrel and cap are hand turned and highly polished. The barrel is then imprinted with the Aurora name, a nod toward its vintage roots. The gold-plated clip is engraved with a sea horse on the crown. The cap has a the wide gold plated engraved Optima band with "AURORA" centered under the clip, flanked by a Greek key design accented by two black lacquer stripes.

The blue Mare Limited Edition collection was released in 2000. Aurora offered the Mare numbered editions as 7,500 fountain pens, 4,500 capped rollerball pens, 7,500 twist action ballpoint pens, and 3,500 twist action mechanical pencils.

This Optima Limited Edition pen was purchased by my husband from Fahrneys Pens on November 15, 2000. It was part of his personal collection and was gentle used and well taken care of. This pen is number 1660 of 4500 rollerball pens. The number is visible in several of the photos. The pen is in excellent pre-owned condition.

It does not come with a refill.