I've been viewing the few recent Winchester straight razor auctions, the completed auctions on Ebay since I welcomed a very nice Winchester 5/8 round point with tortoise celluloid scales into my family yesterday.

I saw that a known Ebay razor power seller has a Winchester razor on Ebay now and notes in the main description that it's "Shave ready".

That got me thinking: Who would pay more for a nice Winchester straight razor on Ebay?


  • Collectors of any and all things Winchester (I would believe such an individual, by the way, would give diddly squat about whether such a razor was "shave ready").
  • A straight razor user/collector of all things straight razor and secondarily as a Winchester brand razor.

Just for fun, what would your speculation be and why? Any answer including mine is of course pure speculation; but, it's fun to speculate on this kind of stuff IMO.

My answer would be that I believe a Winchester collector would pay more all things being equal. I base this off of some Keen Kutter razors I've seen go for unusually high amounts as well as Case.

Chris L