Thread: E. Peter, Paris (7-day set)

E. Peter, Paris (7-day set) on French eBay site.

Item nr. 230264461227

Looks like a nice set... I'm almost broken (RAD hit hard the two last weeks) but maybe I'll try to get it for cheap as the seller is not wanting to sell it out of France (happily I have family living in Alsace )

Are the commas supposed to be periods? if not that is mighty expensive almost 8 grand US.

Originally Posted by Akady

Are the commas supposed to be periods? if not that is mighty expensive almost 8 grand US.

Yes, in Europe we us commas instead of periods.
Like this: € 1.000,- (= thousand Euro).

The dash (-) indicates that there are no cents involved.

Otherwise it would be something like this: € 1.000,95 (= thousand Euro and ninety five cents).

We have a third way to write numbers: You can also write the thousand with a <'> i.e. 1'ooo. So, 1'000.95 is thousand and ninety-five cents.

But usually on Ebay Europe (I've checked France, Belgium, Italy, Germany and Switzerland), prices are written as Joelski78 just said, but not always... for instance on Ebay England they use the same system as in the US... so it is not a "Europe" question, or not completely (Switzerland is not part of the EU but use the same monetary writing, but England is part of the EU but doesn't follow it... don't ask me why).

Addendum: This is the constantly nagging wife responsible for the linguistic saltos of everyone around: Euro's is wrong twice. Plural is Euro and in no language known to me does a plural -S have an apostrophe in front of it Nagging Wife (proud member of the 'Fight the Idiot Apostroph in all languages' Front) over.

P.S.
Do NOT let SWMBO near your computer... sorry

Thanks Ockham for your corrections

Reading back my post a made a few silly mistakes.

E. Peter, Paris (7-day set) [ended eBay auction]


E. Peter, Paris (7-day set) [resale at FineRazors]

Don't worry it is not the same set. Look carefully: the razors are different (the pivot pin is a good example) and the boxes too (look at the day marks). The second one was already to sell on fine-razor at least from the beginning of last week...

BTW the set sold by Fine-razors is far more nicer: razors in real ivory with pins out of silver, but I agree, the price is very consequent... if only I could buy the set of Buddel paying the same money as the ebay set...

I dont trusted my eyes, when I found this thread
But Ockham is right, the sets are only similar. The set from manyrazor on my site was not cheap, thats is right. But I think it is not easy to find a second set like this he sold. Not one ivory scale was brocken, no rust, no nicks and all 7 razors in one box.
The new owner had at last only to pay 72,- Euro for one razor. I think this is not to much for a straight in this conditions with ivory handle.

But Manfred (manyrazor) make his own prices, and I will make mines. I think at the photos on my site you can easily see, which razors are from him and which are mines. And if not, you must only send a e-mail and ask

Buddel,

I looked at your 7 day set and thought it was stunning. Ivory handles with silver pins.

The skill to make a set like that would be impressive today let alone 100 years ago.

Every part of the razors was crafted by hand. Just superb craftsmanship. One of the best sets I've ever seen for sale.

Your selling price was very fair and congratulations to whoever purchased it from you.