I'm going to NYC in a couple of months and would like to do some shopping for nice old straight razors for my collection when I'm there. Any recommendations?
Thanks ahead!
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I'm going to NYC in a couple of months and would like to do some shopping for nice old straight razors for my collection when I'm there. Any recommendations?
Thanks ahead!
It's been dead and buried for about 7 years.... Antiques stores here were snuffed out by rent in the beginning of the 00s, we lost major antiques shows recently and the flea scene here is run by a mentally ill woman that charges so much for tables they mostly deal with higher end stuff or things they think will make up the $300+ table fee. It's just been destroyed as an antiques town which is sad because at one point it was the best anywhere for smalls...
Long island has a lot of antiques stores but I can tell you they have been heavily picked clean of this stuff.
And there is a NY based seller that must go to all the estate sales judging by the number of razors he lists.
Even that scene is poor in manhattan for razors... It's good here to buy art and furniture. Jewelry as well. 90% of the time what you encounter these days if you encounter anything is a genco or a beat german blade.
My best advice is to try engineering some potential deals with locals through wtb before you get here.
Thank you guys for the info! As disappointing as it sounds, but good to know anyway.
These days its tough, NYC as previously said would be a dry venture. They do have a notable place for shave related stuff soaps etc. Look up Pasteur Pharmacy its worth a trip to one of their locations just too look at all the stuff. Only luck I have had finding straights in an antique shop was in Rhinebeck, NY. which is about an hour and a half away by car up the Hudson river. I scored 3 framebacks there for a reasonable price 2 of them were Wade and Butchers and some french razor don't remember the brand. But you just have to be lucky because the razor people will pick everything clean that's worth anything.
The antiques scene in nyc really dropped off when the bleecker st stores were snuffed out to make room for designer flagship stores and all the huge lots the fleas were in got developed. Nowadays remaining dealers are trying to hit impossible 10 run home runs off of you no matter what you try to buy. It stinks.
I do what I can to keep the area north of Albany New York picked clean. Hahahaha. If you go into Vermont, the hunting is better, and Connecticut still has some rural areas that may be good. New York city is just too costly.
It's not that it's costly necessarily, it's that it's dead. Everyone just keys their stuff to suit ppl looking for jewelry, crafts, or things to throw in luxury condos.
I have found that its usually costly down there too! Everyone thinks that every blade is thirty dollars plus. Like a bad ebay auction where every razor is "Antique and Rare".
As said earlier in the thread the antique shops and antique malls in NYC that carried smalls like SR's and the like of which there were MANY have long since been driven out by the high cost of rent .
They really just don't exist anymore.All there is today are very high end furniture ,art and jewelry dealers.
You can't pay $250 a foot a month rent on $100 razors..............
How many razors can you get in a square foot?Quote:
Originally Posted by Skinflint
Seriously you have a good point.
Depends how high the ceilings are.:p
Jenga??????Quote:
Originally Posted by Razorfaust