Thier both amazing!! Beautiful antique's!! I still use my ol' stand by, the sink in the Lu, works great but not nearly as elagant!![lot's of !! there, ain't there!][sorry]
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Thier both amazing!! Beautiful antique's!! I still use my ol' stand by, the sink in the Lu, works great but not nearly as elagant!![lot's of !! there, ain't there!][sorry]
as ever tinkersd
I often see such stands at Flea Markets and in Antique stores but both pictures are wonderful specimens! I must admit an antique shaving stand is on my "One of these days for my man cave" list. In fact, a man cave is on the same list :)
Well Hellrazor308,
the bowl was concepted for washing the face and is well before time of indoors plumbing.
If you look on right side of the marble, you can see a red gum ring that I use to clean the razor during shaving, and when I've finish to shave I clean the razor with alcool for degrease the blade from soap and fat, in this way I keep my razor free from rust and I've not to wait long time before to dry oneself.
Oh my gosh! I think I bid on that very one! That said, I never did get it and had since forgotten about it! Until now lol.
Lazy summer days indeed - it was my intention to place it in my screened in patio so I could shave outside and watch the world go by...
To Bushdoctor. Red Gum Ring?? Confused on how you would used this to clean a razor? Would you please enlighten.
Oh yes, is really easy to do, I scrape the razor on gum scraping ring to clean it from lather. I add some pics and hope you can understand like function.
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[QUOTE=Bushdoctor;974888]Oh yes, is really easy to do, I scrape the razor on gum scraping ring to clean it from lather. I add some pics and hope you can understand like function.
Bushdoctor,
Love the stand (and Carl, I like yours too! You should definitely buy it!) and this gum ring is completely new to me. Was it originally intended as a shaving accessory? Looks a lot like a diaphragm, but why a diaphragm would come with a nice cut-glass holder eludes me.
Thanks for sharing your great, old-world stuff.
I almost never rinse my razors, I try to keep them as dry as possible; like you. I think people would use this sort of setup a lot years ago, esp where one let a room in a boarding house, I imagine, for just general washing too. But I'd use the bowl just like I use the bathroom sink; to soak and warm the bowl and brush and wet the wash cloth in at the end to wash the lather off my face...
Nice..! Very classic and nostalgic.............:)