Thread: Rebranded Filly?

I didn't win this, but was curious...since M. Mogal was a distributor and had blades made from all over the place, what are the chances it's a rebranded filly?

http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item...d=160766934971

Looks to me like that is exactly what it is.

kind of what i thought...
not a bad deal. i was willing to go up to $50 to find out, but the active rust on the edge and elsewhere, plus trying to restore the blade around the gold wash kept me from going any higher. but it's interesting, i haven't seen one of those before...

Think your looking at a filly copy.

Originally Posted by pixelfixed

Think your looking at a filly copy.

possible...this is the limited info i could find available:

"ROMO Stands for Rosenbaum & Mogal, Inc, a New York import firm in operation between 1917 and 1924, and it is my understanding the ROMO trademark is now owned by Mitchell Mogal, Inc, a firm renowned for importing fine cutlery from all over the world… but most notably Switchblade Knives."

maybe one of historians can weigh in, but I can't imagine fillys were so popular 1917-1924 that a new york company would copy a spanish company down the doble temple marking. if it was brand new, definitely...but i have a hunch, since they imported a lot and were never know as a manufacturer themselves (that i could find) these guys bought from all over and rebranded it with their name...that it's a filly.

That is an interesting razor. I just sold a Filly/C-Mon so I don't wonder that Filly did that on contract way back when. Probably a good shaver once the chips are honed out but unfortunately the gold wash would go south if a full scale resto was done. At least I think it would .;... some of these guys are virtuosos when it comes to restos.

Yea, i bid on that one too... I think it will buff out nicely. Nice catch.

Jose Monserrat Pou made Filarmonicas for other people for sure. I had one - especially made for Castagnon of Madrid to celebrate their 50th anniversary. It had none of the usual Filarmonica stampings - Just the name and address of Castagnon on the tang and a goldwash design on the blade - not the usual matador or similar, just 'Premio de Honor 1907' -







Regards,
Neil