Thread: Antique store

I really don't have any photos of the razors but the antique store around here are beginning to get funny. I saw a grand total of 10 razors in 3 stores. the price went from 32.95 to 90.00. each one was a disaster. broken blades and scales and rust that was as thick as the blades. who let the cat out of the bag about the demand for razors. I think there digging them up from scrap piles unknown to mortal man. next time I go looking i'll take my phone and photos to show. you just wouldn't believe what I saw.

Yep, been a big price jump the past couple of years around here too. The antique stores around here where I used to buy blades for $15-$25 now are asking $35 plus for the same (poor) condition razors and some that are just plan junk. They aren't getting any more of my money!

I know exactly what you mean. I come across antique stores trying to get top dollar for turd razors all the time. Especially if they have one of the big names. I've seen the same Puma razor for 3 years now sit on a shelf with a huge price tag and it's got half the toe honed away. OOOHHH but it's a PUMA!!! I'd like to explain to the seller why it hasn't moved, but then again, if it's there job to sell these things maybe they should be researching them a little more. I know of another store that has a small Wade & Butcher with broken scales that has a $200 price tag. The other day I was at an Antique mall and saw a Gillette fat tech priced at $60 and down another 4 booths the same razor priced at $8. Makes me chuckle a bit.

Most of the dealers around here are a bit optimistic with their prices.
Good finds are getting scarcer. I know there there are more people in the area looking for straights.

At least you find them in antique stores. I go and find nothing.

same around here unless you get away from the herds of people and find a place tucked away !

Here, the razors sit for a long time, unlike the coasts where there is a lot more money. A razor in good shape may be at an ebay price but turds are often cheap. Deals may be had also; picked up 8 SE/DE razors in fair to good condition for $10 today. They had been in a showcase forever. The dealer wanted shut of them.
Looking for razors is to be done the idea that you won't find one and to enjoy the trip. Then when one comes your way, it is a nice thing.
Dealers and collectors come and go so there is always some around.
I have been in a store and found nothing on Saturday and a Buddy got there on Sunday and walked off with a new YG Escher, and seven straights....for $42.
Enjoy the chase, I do!
~Richard

Originally Posted by Geezer

a Buddy got there on Sunday and walked off with a new YG Escher, and seven straights....for $42.
Enjoy the chase, I do!
~Richard

very nice score on goods right there !!
im planning a trip this some either west or east as i havnt decided yet but im starting to make a list of places to do and things to see !! i do plan on hitting every antique store i can ..lol

Geezer, your post reminds me of something I was thinking the other day. I have found nice straights, DEs, and barber hones but I have never seen a natural hone like an Arkansas or Thuringian at an antique store.

Originally Posted by Leatherstockiings

Geezer, your post reminds me of something I was thinking the other day. I have found nice straights, DEs, and barber hones but I have never seen a natural hone like an Arkansas or Thuringian at an antique store.

Actually I see a lot of Hindustans and Arkies around here. Got a couple of small translucents and one 3x6x1 that I am grinding the hollow out of at about a mm a session. Look in the back of the store and basements if they have them where the tools are and go through the boxes of "Stuff." Lots of Norton Indias' also. I got a YG Thuringer out of an old tool box a while back. I still go through the old tools. That's where my Buddy got the Escher!
~Richard
Above all have fun on the hunt!