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Who can explain this?
Now I almost can see why a duck will go hundreds of dollars when a wooden and I mean completely wooden, scale and blade, razor goes for this much. Am I missing something here ?
Antique 19C. Folk Art Wooden Straight Razor Trade Sign - eBay (item 190345691044 end time Nov-09-09 17:31:03 PST)
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It's large, and there is probably rather specific group of collectors interested in them for... whatever reason. If you watch the bay, you'll notice these don't come along very often.
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thanks Dylan, but still... I mean ... come on... it's an old razor made of wood...
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And a Dubl Duck is just a razor that's probably made by Dovo...
And lobster scales are just lobster scales...
And etc etc
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I think it got the folk art crowd going. Personally, I consider folk art to be a god-awful form of "art" (probably better only then performance art), but there are people that will pay lots of money for it.
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It's just a vintage barberiana type thing and there are many people who collect them and pay whatever for it. No different than people who collect old bottles.
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Note that there were 17 bids on the thing. Collecting is a powerful instinct for some people. One man's trash is another man's treasure for sure. :)
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Damn! And I just dumped a bagful of unique stuff in pristine condition to the trash bin.
In a way, I understand that huge bid, since that is actually quite rare thing to have. Kinda analoguos to some asking "you spent HOW much on a razor?" I just wish I would have 100 of those stashed somewhere...