New guy from East Tennessee
Short version of my story. I've always been a collector of military bayonets and never gave much thought to razors other than remembering the barber using one to shave my neck back when I still got my hair cut in the 60s. Haven't had a haircut in probably 20 years though and like alot of folks, I just use a modern triple blade razor for the whiskers. Well my wife recently inherited a PILE of straight razors and other vintage shaving stuff from a long time collector. Hundreds of razors ! Some in really nice condition and in display cases, some complete sets of 7 that are marked with the days of the week, some fancy and appear to be very old and some that are rusty & don't look like they would cut butter. There's even a bag of what I assume are "parts razors" with just blades. just scales, or ones with broken blades. To put it bluntly we are overwhelmed with this stuff. Not a clue if we have a gold mine or a coal mine but my gut feeling is that quite a few of them are old and valuable. Her friend always told her his razors were his retirement fund. So here we are wondering where to begin with sorting through this stuff. I might keep some of them but we will likely sell the majority. Just want to make sure we know what we have before we take a beating on them so please don't make any offers to buy the lot or anything of that sort. That's not why I signed up. I belong to several hotrod & muscle car forums and find that the friendships formed and the information shared is worth more than money. Thanks for having me and I'll probably just hang out in the shadows for a bit and see what I can learn.