Thread: 6 NOS Filarmonica EPBDs -- $2440 winning bid

Here's an interesting auction that just ended that maybe some of the Filarmonica collectors were watching: 6 NOS Especial Para Barbas Duras 7/8s still in plastic from an Argentinian seller. Starting bid was $2390 and winning bid was $2440. That breaks down to a hair over $400 per razor, which seems like a pretty good deal (based on seeing the prices that NOS EPBDs seem to be fetching lately). For posterity sake, here's two pictures of the razors. They sure look pretty all wrapped up. Any of you here the lucky winner of the auction? If so, could you post pics once the razors arrive?

6 Straight Razor Filarmonica Especial Para Barbas Duras 14 7 8" NOS Unused | eBay

Somebodies prize possession passing hands that's for sure. Somebody has a little more disposable income than I do but then, that's not saying much :<0)

Yeah very nice I've been watching those, which works out around £250 a razor whoever won that auction made a killing as I've seen a few NOS EPBD selling for more than £600 each in the last few months, I was expecting them to sell for around £2500.

Originally Posted by celticcrusader

I was expecting them to sell for around £2500.

I think most of the SR collectors here and on Ebay are more regular guys and not multi-millionaires with tons of disposable cash. Most of the buyers searching on Ebay are not going to have thousands and thousands of dollars (or pounds or Euros) to burn on an unquestionably rare and valuable item like this one. So I think sellers run into a ceiling that the bids just won't pierce when they list on Ebay.

In comparison I watched the online/live page of the recent SR collection auction by Morphy Auctions and there were two pairs of Joseph Rodgers razors, one with carved MOP scales and the other with gold plated metal scales, that drew bids of around $4,000 which imo they never would have gotten on Ebay despite how fine they were.

Also compare sales of single razors to 7-day sets of identical razors. If the individual razor is a nice Joseph Rodgers or CV Heljestrand or whatever it might go for $150, $200, even $300 if sold on Ebay but a complete 7-day set of the same style razor isn't going to sell for $1400 or $2100 but usually just half of that. Many buyers on Ebay can spend a couple hundred dollars but few can drop a grand so easily.

Yes, I was watching those, and on an individual basis they were a bargain for sure.

Having seen the EPBD 8/8 spike point NOS go for $1,000 plus, if sold off individually, the seller stands to do very well if that's in fact the plan. Like most things, value and beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and you certainly won't see blades like this pop up for that much longer, like most vintage blades, they aren't making them any more.

One thing about the NOS blades though, the instant you use them, or to some even open them, they aren't NOS anymore, and I for one want to use what I buy!

Originally Posted by goldragon

I think most of the SR collectors here and on Ebay are more regular guys and not multi-millionaires with tons of disposable cash. Most of the buyers searching on Ebay are not going to have thousands and thousands of dollars (or pounds or Euros) to burn on an unquestionably rare and valuable item like this one. So I think sellers run into a ceiling that the bids just won't pierce when they list on Ebay.

In comparison I watched the online/live page of the recent SR collection auction by Morphy Auctions and there were two pairs of Joseph Rodgers razors, one with carved MOP scales and the other with gold plated metal scales, that drew bids of around $4,000 which imo they never would have gotten on Ebay despite how fine they were.

Also compare sales of single razors to 7-day sets of identical razors. If the individual razor is a nice Joseph Rodgers or CV Heljestrand or whatever it might go for $150, $200, even $300 if sold on Ebay but a complete 7-day set of the same style razor isn't going to sell for $1400 or $2100 but usually just half of that. Many buyers on Ebay can spend a couple hundred dollars but few can drop a grand so easily.

Actually I've seen individual Filarmonica NOS EPBD sell for more than £600 on Ebay, and a well known member of this forum was selling some EPBD a few years back on his website for 520 Euro they quickly sold out so when you say buyers can spend a few hundred dollars but few can drop a grand I think you will be surprised what forum members would spend for the right razor, needful things people will sell their soul to own the right razor.

Originally Posted by celticcrusader

I think you will be surprised what forum members would spend for the right razor, needful things people will sell their soul to own the right razor.

Which goes to prove what a guy told me in 1978 or so ........ If you can't be satisfied with what you have, you'll never be satisfied with what you get.

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

Which goes to prove what a guy told me in 1978 or so ........ If you can't be satisfied with what you have, you'll never be satisfied with what you get.

True. That initial euphoria of ownership fades quickly. Main reason I sold off the mass of my den and focused on the very few items that pleased me most. As I was telling Phrank the other day in a PM conversation, sometimes you have to "scratch that itch" to own something to find out it is what it is.

a friend of mine was outbid 15usd in the last 5-6 seconds on that auction...he cried himself to sleep needless to say)

On the oter hand...i heard a rumor that japannipon on the bay got a hold of them....so I espect we will be seeing them priced around 1000usd a piece in about 1-2 weeks.

That auction was epic...i hope the new owner takes care of them....

They are back on ebay for £497 each!