Knowing the locations and condition of every single shaving component in the antique stores of my little town, I moved on to the big city next door and hit 3 of their biggest antiques locations.

Lots of razors, few keepers, no bargains.

Sucks having to bother the clerk to open the locked case only to find a worthless blade hidden inside the scales. I don't mean rusty or nicked, I mean broken and honed to the bones.

Found about three interesting ones, one i'm still researching, another might I might re-scale as the blade size/shape condition was good despite broken scales. The other was a non-Gillette O/C DE.

Saw a double-coffin case. But it was paired with un-matched junk, a 5/8 honed down to about 3/8 and one of those replaceable blade trimmers-that looks sorta like an SR.

Saw a barber hone "optimistically priced" at 45 bucks.

And then there was this cute sales clerk quite fascinated by the fact that I actually use the SR's. May have to re-visit that shoppe.

So I came home and win the bid on a pile of stuff that includes 3 SR's. One of them appears to be 7/8...the others, who knows. The fat one caught my eye. I bought the lot. I just doubled my collection in the last 3 days. now have 5 shave-ready, and 3 in the mail.

Shave test for the Cincinnati Celluloid next-that was a strange one to hone.

Fixing a bevel on a pal's razor now.