Thread: Blimp razor... $3,500.00 ????

Wow!

BLIMP PATTERN Straight Razor Cut Throat Vintage | eBay

Sunbird

Wow indeed!

Glad to know that a razor he values at $3,500 BIN will be shipped to you in a bubble envelope!

James.

Maybe he means helium bubbles?

Even at 35$ it's a bit expensive, Fontenille is a very commun mark out here in France.
Nevertheless it's a nice French "rattler" made in Thiers at the end of the XIX century.
The registred number of the trade mark is : 134.

Regards

You know, for $3500 I'd at least expect a faux frameback not to be described as a frameback! At least that what it looks like to me, unless the light is playing a trick...

I have a couple of old (real!) framebacks kicking around. Maybe I should throw them up on the bay as well with crazy pricetags just to see what happens.

There must be something really rare about that razor.

The seller is John West, a well known collector for over 40 years and he really knows his stuff. He provided a ton of knowledge to this forum in the early days.

Have fun.

I saw that yesterday and wondered how soon it would be on a site. The blade didn't seem to be in mint condition.

Originally Posted by Johnus

I saw that yesterday and wondered how soon it would be on a site. The blade didn't seem to be in mint condition.

Well this kind of thing is usually mostly about the scales, not the blade. Mostly.

People who buy razors to use (like most of us) do appreciate a nice rare scale, but we are more pragmatic than a scale collector. If we are going to pay 3.5K for a razor, we want it to be like shaving with God's stanley knife so we mainly worry about the kind of steel, it's condition, and so on. Based on that criteria you'd be pushing it to get 2%, or perhaps 3% if you were lucky, of that asking price IMHO.

But that is not what this razor is about. As Lynn said, the seller generally knows his stuff - you'll never get a bargain off him, but neither will you get ripped off. He is usually on the money, as it were, at least in my experience.

James.