Thread: 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)

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.

thanks Dylan, but still... I mean ... come on... it's an old razor made of wood...

And a Dubl Duck is just a razor that's probably made by Dovo...
And lobster scales are just lobster scales...
And etc etc

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.

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.

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.

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...