Thread: Swedish Fish

Where were the rest of you guys bidding on this? I've never picked up an eskilstuna razor, esp. not one made by EA berg, but I guess not many other people noticed this one.

Antique Straight Razor Made in Sweden Cartani with A Fish Symbol Mirror Look | eBay

Not exactly a $1 yard sale deal, but in good enough shape that I can give it the TLC that it needs.

If you bought that one, I hope what I see is just a little chip and not a serious crack. Hard to tell from poor pics.

Originally Posted by Hart

If you bought that one, I hope what I see is just a little chip and not a serious crack. Hard to tell from poor pics.

Yeah, a little bit of risk. I'm assuming that it's a scuff combined with a spot of corrosion right at the edge. I hope it is!

If I were a razor restorer, it wouldn't be worth the risk, but since it's just for personal risk, there's not that much to lose.

IIRC there was a thread on the Swedish Fish razors within the past few months ?

Yeah, I did remember correctly. Here is a thread with another Swedish razor decorated with a fish logo ....... whatever that is about ? The significance escapes me, but I know in Minnesota Swedes eat a fish that they age somehow, and you have to be raised eating it to be able to stomach it.

http://straightrazorpalace.com/razor...ng-tail-3.html

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

IIRC there was a thread on the Swedish Fish razors within the past few months ?

Yeah, I did remember correctly. Here is a thread with another Swedish razor decorated with a fish logo ....... whatever that is about ? The significance escapes me, but I know in Minnesota Swedes eat a fish that they age somehow, and you have to be raised eating it to be able to stomach it.

http://straightrazorpalace.com/razor...ng-tail-3.html

Lutefisk

Cod soaked in lye. You would see it in the stores around the holidays. Looked like a big, dead, decaying hunk of yuck. People who admit eating Lutefisk say it is OK if smothered in butter or something else to kill the taste.

I never tried it and won't.

Dave

Always had a soft spot in my heart for E.A. Bergs. However that little beauty slipped thru my grasp.

Originally Posted by rolodave

Lutefisk

Cod soaked in lye. You would see it in the stores around the holidays. Looked like a big, dead, decaying hunk of yuck. People who admit eating Lutefisk say it is OK if smothered in butter or something else to kill the taste.

I never tried it and won't.

Dave

Or surströmming which is even more notorious.

Originally Posted by rolodave

Lutefisk

Cod soaked in lye. You would see it in the stores around the holidays. Looked like a big, dead, decaying hunk of yuck. People who admit eating Lutefisk say it is OK if smothered in butter or something else to kill the taste.

I never tried it and won't.

Dave

They also have the notorious surstromming, a herring. They remove just enough of its stomach/intestinal tract is removed to stop outright rotting, but enough remains to allow fermentation. It is canned, and the can bulges with the gases, etc, released during fermentation.

It is banned from being eaten inside in many places, so traditionally it is eaten outdoors, just as well as it reportedly has one of the most putrid smells known in a foodstuff.

Below: a well expanded can of rotten baltic herring:-



I never tried that - and I won't!

Regards,
Neil

Originally Posted by DaveW

Where were the rest of you guys bidding on this? I've never picked up an eskilstuna razor, esp. not one made by EA berg, but I guess not many other people noticed this one.

I already got one. 13/16"