Thread: Jaded already

Although my RAD affliction is barely 6 months old, this really cracked me up! It's from a description on an eBay auction:

"Estate find with RARE makers mark. Has a Circled M An arrow and an iron cross on it!!!"

LOL - those are usually the best way to find them! I've found more than a few that way.

My favorite story about this type of find was from Valery at the Gentleman's Den. He found a very nice razor prospect for a restore...was a W&B Celebrated Hollow Ground square point....seller thought the size was 5/8 or 6/8, when it arrived, it was an 8/8 in beautiful shape...snagged for approx $40.00....when it was finished with some beautiful black horn scales, it looked virtually untouched, like it had basically sat in a box for 100+ years.

If you look and are patient, and use some strange search criteria, you'd be surprised what you can come up - sheesh, I've found more than a few beauties with terms like, "big straight razor", or "wide cut throat razor"....they're there, and they're just waiting to be found!

Good post!

But you have to remember it goes the other way as well. I found one that was described as an 8/8 W&B but it wasn't any more than a 7/8, still a fair size and the kind that I like but there should be some truth in advertising.

I did once buy a razor that was a W&B Bow razor. The advertisement said it was a barbers razor as it had a mustache stamped on it. The picture were poor but the razor was in very nice condition and the price was right. It is funny the things that people who don't know what they are selling will say.

I saw what I think was a shaving scuttle advertised as an egg separator at an antique store. Going to have to look that one up.

Originally Posted by Leatherstockiings

I saw what I think was a shaving scuttle advertised as an egg separator at an antique store. Going to have to look that one up.

Now that's classic, been telling my daughter, who scored a W&B FBU (couldn't believe it!!) for her online store, to keep an eye out for tea pots/kettles that resemble scuttle's (after I showed her one)....egg separator...excellent!

Originally Posted by Dzanda

Although my RAD affliction is barely 6 months old, this really cracked me up! It's from a description on an eBay auction:

"Estate find with RARE makers mark. Has a Circled M An arrow and an iron cross on it!!!"

There are a couple of questionable sellers on etsy, too, selling gold dollars etc, as "estate" razors.

They must be hamster estates or something, because there aren't any other estates old enough to acquire a gold dollar and then die off and have an estate settlement.