Just a little story about razors and coin.

**regularjoe** · 06-02-2012, 09:33 PM

So about once a month I go to an antique store not far from me. In this antique store are ten straight razors. All ten are in pretty decent shape. All ten have blade engravings of some sort. All ten have been there for at least one year. At the time, I can't remember the branding on many of them, but I know there are three Swedish razors and a W&B big boy. Now the butcher blade isn't fantastic, but I do like to go and gawk at them. He's got them priced a fair bit above the ebay market, which means they've always been there for me when I wanted to go window shopping. Anyhow, I happened to be in the area recently and thought I better go do my staring and drooling. To my dismay the cabinet he keeps them in was gone. Egads! Who in the world would have bought all ten?!! They were far overpriced for razors sitting in an antique store. There is no razor reseller/restorer within 120 miles of me...hmmm. Perhaps it's catching on I wonder to myself. Maybe I'm gonna have a SR buddy after all. This could be good. I better ask the clerk, and discover the new owner of my stolen eye candy, and perhaps make a new friend. I ask the clerk about the missing straights. Fully expecting that some new and frothing RADster has, in a fit of madness, bought all the SR's he could find for whatever price was asked. ( I know I had my days of that) The clerk tells me, "Well what happened is we had a break in." I crumble...Some dastardly villian has broken in to the antique store and stolen the razors!!! I nervously ask what was taken. He tells me, "Yeah, that case had a bunch of old coins in there. They didn't take the razors. They just broke the glass and took all the coins...The dealer took the case out of here because of the broken glass. It'll be back." Yippee!! My eye candy is safe! Long story short: No matter what our razors are worth to us, they hold no value in the eyes of coin thieves. And the lesson: Apparently some old coins have silver in them. Thanks for reading my story.

**thebigspendur** · 06-02-2012, 11:30 PM

Reminds me a few years ago a friend of mine was accosted in the street in NYC by a thug who wanted his watch which he assumed was an expensive Rolex. My friend gave it to him and said that watch won't buy you a big mac and the guy looked at it and said "Seiko" and threw it back at him and ran off. It turns out the watch cost about 6 grand.