Thread: Can someone please explain this to me?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...6974&rd=1&rd=1

I've never heard of the Name. The blade isn't in great condition and even the plastic scales are broken. Am I missing something?

Shapleigh made good razors (I think the blades were usually solingen). I don't think the scales are broken, it's just got a dragon or lion on the end. And I'm not sure they're plastic either.

But mostly, It looks like a case of tweedledum and tweedledumber in a race to the bottom.

Yikes. With the proper spin you can sell anyone anything on E-bay for a premium price

Huh, maybe they know something about the razor that we don't?? I don't collect straights so know very little about their value as collectables.

Can't imagine why anyone would pay that much to use it as a shaver.


Scott

This may be the same company and with such history the razors may be a collectors item!
http://shapleigh0.tripod.com/shaplei...tion/id13.html

Tony H

Maybe, but shapleigh razors aren't terribly rare, they show up every week or two on ebay and never seem to go for too much. I've never seen those scales though, so maybe this one was particularly rare.

I'll bet it's a one of a kind set of scales that people are clambering over there. Crazy.

X

Yep, sometimes its stuff nobody else would notice that makes it valuable. I've got these two Ashton pipes that are fairly ordinary silver spigots, except that up close the silverwork is extremely detailed and much more intricate than the normal spigots. There's a couple of Ashton collectors in town that went apeshit when they saw them, and one day the local pipe shop called me to tell me the Ashton distributor was visiting and wanted to see my pipes. Turns out that Ashton only made 3 of these things, the distributor kept one and sent the other two down to the retail stores, one went to a place in Virginia and the other to a shop in California. I bought my first one from the Virginia shop, and bought my second one from an ebay seller in Los Angeles that was helping liquidate an estate.

The cross of a dog with an elk, would that explain the rarity?