PHAROS
The "Pharos" line was first introduced to this forum in November 1999. The Pharos was intended for marketing outside the US - starting in England and Germany. No decision at that time was made on whether these were to be limited or not. Indications were that they would be more 'GLOW'-sized. And no decision at that time was made about offering Pharos to US Harbour Lights dealers.
Then in February of 2000 it was Announce that Harbour lights was producing the Pharos collection to be marketed in the UK. With an edition size of 8,000 and the first 2,000 was going to the US. They were going to be made smaller then what is made in the U.S. since collectors in the United Kingdom didn’t have room like those in the US. HL thought that the smaller size would make it sell better. It wasn’t long till all the orders in the US were filled.
Then Kim Andrews Announced the following in October 25, 2000
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Thank you for your patience in awaiting news of the delivery of the Pharos
Collection Lighthouses ( Trwyn Du, Bell Rock, Ballinacourty, Portland Bill
and Needles) After many long months of waiting, our shipment of new product
has finally arrived, and sadly, the entire shipment FAILED our routine
Quality Control Inspection. We are tremendously disappointed, and know you
share our frustration, and so, as a result, we have decided to table the
Pharos Collection for the time being. We apologize sincerely for the
terribly long wait, and especially for the disappointment of not being able
to satisfy pending orders after all this time. Our commitment to top
quality merchandise must continue to come before our desire to ship product,
and we greatly appreciate your understanding and support.
We will let you know if and when the Pharos Collection becomes available in
the future. We are now canceling all pending orders for these 5 items,
PC101, PC103, PC104, PC105, and PC107.
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Even though the Pharos was indefinitely halted, 400 of them were sent to the UK. Their numbers started with 2001 and the ended with 2400. Then the hunt began. The Harbour Light dealer search had 49 UK dealers with their phone numbers. And many collectors started their search.
The Pharos is an extremely well crafted Harbour light. But that wasn’t the original belief about them. In late October 2000 Kim made an other Announcement
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-...we wish to DISCOURAGE our dealers and collectors from hunting for the Pharos available in the UK. These pieces are not up to our product standards, and we are concerned that if a dealer or collector goes to great effort and expense to acquire them, they will only be disappointed as the end result....
...We find mold deterioration, warping of towers, poor paint application and colors, as well as messy fingerprints on the pieces. We made the decision that these pieces, as produced, could not be shipped to our dealers...
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Of course the collectors didn’t listen and it was not long until a few were starting to find the market. I believe the bronze lady was the first to sell a set and it went for $750. That set the price until August 2001. Then information leaked out to the forum that a dealer was found in UK that was selling them for a total of ($279) including shipping. His name was Mark and the name of the dealership was “All Things Nautical”. This was announced on the forum by pharologst and it wasn’t very long until those on the forum that wanted a Pharos set got one including yours truly. Mark was the main provider for the US and he was able to sell 200 sets of the Pharos. Mark was able to get cheap shipping ($40) that made him the best one to buy from. I doubt that much more than another 50 made it to U.S. by other UK dealers. This would make it a total of around 250 sets. This year the Pharos value has peaked to $380 on ebay and $450 on the Market Place.
The following is a list of the Pharos that the collectors on this forum has provided.
This list was put together by Shortcake.
2002 Needles Point fscjr
2003 Needles Point Rod Watson
2005 Portland Bill engbrady
2008 Bell Rock Sonic59
2010 Portland Bill TD
2014 Ballinacourty Randy Kremer
2017 Ballinacourty Shortcake
2025 Ballinacourty CJandAMANDA
2037 Ballinacourty Jan
2039 Trwyn Du DocJ44
2040 Bell Rock Rrronne
2042 Trwyn Du pharologst
2045 Trwyn Du R Foster
2046 Trwyn Du mghusge
2047 Trwyn Du Tom & JoyceAbbott
2055 Needles Point Rrronne
2067 Trwyn Du Rrronne
2073 Portland Bill CJandAMANDA
2074 Portland Bill Jan
2075 Trwyn Du Randy Kremer
2082 Trwyn Du Gary Toth
2087 Ballinacourty mghusge
2088 Ballinacourty R Foster
2094 Ballinacourty pharologst
2095 Ballinacourty Tom & JoyceAbbott
2112 Needles Point Shortcake
2112 Trwyn Du TD
2113 Ballinacourty 2beacons
2115 Needles Point RESCHULTZ
2119 Needles Point Nana
2120 Ballinacourty RESCHULTZ
2127 Portland Bill Nana
2128 Portland Bill Rich Kirkpatrick
2132 Portland Bill Shortcake
2135 Portland Bill wilsonj3
2136 Portland Bill Bill Harnsberger
2138 Trwyn Du JimJohnson
2140 Trwyn Du Daniel
2141 Trwyn Du Chesapeake Bryan
2142 Trwyn Du gebbyk
2143 Needles Point mombo
2157 Portland Bill J Chidester
2158 Portland Bill tarbaby
2159 Portland Bill GoreWorld
2162 Portland Bill Lorie Roe
2164 Portland Bill RESCHULTZ
2169 Portland Bill gebbyk
2170 Portland Bill Daniel
2171 Portland Bill 2beacons
2174 Portland Bill Chesapeake Bryan
2176 Bell Rock Randy Kremer
2179 Bell Rock Gary Toth
2184 Trwyn Du Lorie Roe
2186 Bell Rock GoreWorld
2186 Needles Point GoreWorld
2186 Trwyn Du GoreWorld
2189 Ballinacourty Rrronne
2191 Bell Rock 2beacons
2191 Needles Point 2beacons
2191 Trwyn Du 2beacons
2192 Bell Rock wilsonj3
2192 Needles Point wilsonj3
2192 Trwyn Du wilsonj3
2201 Trwyn Du Shortcake
2205 Ballinacourty GoreWorld
2208 Ballinacourty gebbyk
2209 Ballinacourty Chesapeake Bryan
2214 Ballinacourty Nana
2216 Ballinacourty Daniel
2217 Needles Point Lorie Roe
2218 Needles Point J Chidester
2221 Bell Rock Shortcake
2223 Bell Rock Shortcake
2225 Needles Point Jeff Marsh
2227 Ballinacourty Randy Kremer
2228 Ballinacourty Gary Toth
2232 Needles Point Chesapeake Bryan
2234 Needles Point gebbyk
2235 Needles Point Daniel
2235 Portland Bill Rrronne
2239 Ballinacourty JimJohnson
2246 Needles Point CJandAMANDA
2247 Needles Point Jan
2255 Ballinacourty TD
2255 Needles Point TD
2263 Portland Bill Rod Watson
2264 Needles Point engbrady
2267 Trwyn Du Nana
2269 Ballinacourty Rod Watson
2270 Portland Bill Sonic59
2271 Bell Rock Lighthouse Ghost
2271 Trwyn Du J Chidester
2272 Ballinacourty Shortcake
2274 Bell Rock tarbaby
2275 Bell Rock J Chidester
2275 Needles Point Randy Kremer
2275 Trwyn Du RESCHULTZ
2277 Ballinacourty Sonic59
2278 Bell Rock CJandAMANDA
2280 Bell Rock Jan
2282 Trwyn Du Rod Watson
2284 Bell Rock Jeff Marsh
2287 Portland Bill Shortcake
2292 Bell Rock pharologst
2294 Bell Rock mghusge
2295 Bell Rock R Foster
2296 Bell Rock Tom & JoyceAbbott
2297 Bell Rock JimJohnson
2301 Needles Point mghusge
2305 Needles Point Tom & JoyceAbbott
2307 Needles Point R Foster
2308 Bell Rock Lorie Roe
2309 Bell Rock Rod Watson
2310 Bell Rock Nana
2311 Bell Rock RESCHULTZ
2311 Needles Point pharologst
2314 Portland Bill pharologst
2315 Needles Point Lighthouse Ghost
2318 Neddles Point tarbaby
2318 Portland Bill Tom & JoyceAbbott
2319 Portland Bill R Foster
2320 Portland Bill mghusge
2323 Trwyn Du Sonic59
2326 Ballinacounty tarbaby
2326 Portland Bill JimJohnson
2329 Ballinacourty Lighthouse Ghost
2332 Needles Point Gary Toth
2338 Ballinacourty wilsonj3
2338 Needles Point Shortcake
2338 Trwyn Du Jan
2339 Needles Point JimJohnson
2341 Ballinacourty Bill Harnsberger
2341 Trwyn Du CJandAMANDA
2342 Ballinacourty J Chidester
2343 Ballinacourty Lorie Roe
2345 Trwyn Du Jeff Marsh
2349 Portland Bill Jeff Marsh
2352 Portland Bill Lighthouse Ghost
2356 Ballinacourty Jeff Marsh
2374 Trwyn Du Shortcake
2380 Bell Rock TD
2381 Bell Rock engbrady
2383 Needles Point Sonic59
2383 Trwyn Du tarbaby
2384 Trwyn Du Lighthouse Ghost
2385 Portland Bill Randy Kremer
2386 Bell Rock gebbyk
2386 Portland Bill Gary Toth
2390 Bell Rock 2beacons
2391 Bell Rock Chesapeake Bryan
2395 Bell Rock Daniel
Later for British Isles
