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Take a good look gents because you may never see another set like it.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/25592282661...mis&media=COPY
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To be clear, I have no vested interest in this item. I am not advertising and make no warrants for it. Just...WOW!
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Absolutely gorgeous.
Tom...!! You thinning the heard.?
Just seems like something he'd have in his stock. :shrug:
wow!
Me want..but...no have $deniro.
You and me both Randy. My guess is that it is being sold by someone who is not a straight shaver, maybe a collector but I doubt that also. Maybe my reasoning is off but I say that because if you were either a straight shaver or even a collector why would you ever sell that set?
I would be happy just knowing someone who owned it. I could be happy being a today...or like the hot chick's ugly friend.
That's outrageous! $7K for a 7 day set of razors???? But you know what, someone will buy them!
The thing is...their commissioned pieces, made for an individual. So IMHO, not a collectors piece, as would be of a 7 day set limited to only so many productions of such razor, sets.
That's what a collectable is, to me.
These ain't worth 3k, maybe $1500
Value, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. I had to kind of laugh about my brother-in-law. Back during the last housing bubble he was buying a house and he was, of course, indignant about the skyrocketing prices but he would keep saying this thing, "$XXX,XXX XX?!?! THAT'S A $70,000 HOUSE!" Based on what? What you think or remember that it ought to be worth back in whatever day you're stuck in? That house is worth what someone is willing to pay for it which is another way of saying it's worth what the market will bear. And that is also the case with basically everything else. Now, one thing about that set that does give a definable value is the silver itself. Hell, the scrap value of the silver alone, may be $1, 000.00.
You should buy this 7 day set! You know you want them!Quote:
Originally Posted by PaulFLUS
with my luck, I would knock the blade of the first one into the faucet on the first shave.
Yes I definitely want them John. Just not enough nickels and dimes in the piggy bank for that little purchase. That's an out of budget item for sure.
You could always take out a second mortgage on your house? Just trying to help you out here!Quote:
Originally Posted by PaulFLUS
Maybe we should start an enabler’s forum.
No, wait, we already have several of them!:w:y
That's a great idea! Think I could get my wife on board? Maybe you could talk to her John. I'll be in the fallout shelter.Quote:
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7 day sets were pretty common back in the day. Silver less so but certainly not like hen's teeth. This was probably bought in an upper end store ready made and the initials were inscribed. The amount of silver is probably not worth more than a few hundred bucks including the artwork.
Outrageous asking price IMHO.
Yeah. I remember when I was new to this hobby around 2006, You'd see NOS or mint vintage go sometimes for simple double digit numbers or just over 100. These days... not so much.Quote:
Originally Posted by PaulFLUS
I would not be interested in them, personally. As far as sterling goes, the design is fairly bland.
The blades are Specials, so likely from the 20's I think. So they are marked sterling, but no hallmarks and it reads that some are electropencil marked?
Nice set, but about 175 each would be fair.
Also the font of the etchings is modern. And tbh kinda boring.
I've restored a Joseph Rodgers 7 day set that had much more ornate etching.
Now you come across a seven day set of these in sterling.... We might talk upwards of 3k.
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Some time ago some outfit was advertising a modern straight with some exotic scale material encrusted with gems and selling for thousands as I recall. it's still on one of the forums here. I'm too lazy to search for it.
There are some true works of art in 7 day sterling sets that were custom made. Most are either in museums or in private collections never to see the light of day.
Don't forget at one time gold sold for $35 per oz and silver for pennies an ounce so...
Yeah well, at one time that $700,000 house sold for $50,000 also. Today's silver price is just south of $24.50, $24.42 to be exact. That's a nice set even if it is more modern and I actually think the Wade and Butcher Special is a good blade; maybe not xceptional but good. I have actually been trying to amass a collection in good enough condition to make a 7 day set of them. I would pay more than $175 for this set but I'm not paying $3000 for it much less $7000; for it or any other set. I'd like to have it, or more accurately I fancy it, but no matter what it is there comes a point that the price is excessive. Mrz summed it up. After you spend all that money on it are you really going to put it to the stones and risk banging it on the sink or dropping it on the floor like that Crookes I've been working on? If not then what is it good for, to feast your eyes upon?
Too rich for my blood.
Probably a wedding, or 25th Anniversary gift.
They would go well with my scuttle.
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Outback is going to buy them!
Way to break out the wares Mike. Fancy fancy!
