Thread: The Gentleman's Set

Another entry to the Gentlemans' Set club, a Thomas & Turner 7 day set. On its way for restoration. I suspect these may be Ivory scales, but not sure.

These razors have now arrived to Dave at restoredrazors.com. He has kindly confirmed the scales are ivory and overall in good condition. I haven't seen his work in the flesh before, but so far he seems like a really nice guy and great communication. He even offered to give the wood box a light sanding and oil for free, which was very kind of him.

Just a reminder about Ivory. A feel good law that may bite us!:
http://straightrazorpalace.com/conve...314-ivory.html
~Richard

Originally Posted by Geezer

Just a reminder about Ivory. A feel good law that may bite us!:
http://straightrazorpalace.com/conve...314-ivory.html
~Richard

Only if your buying for resale,You can Legally own all the Ivory you want.
What will happen is the entire Legal Ivory trade in the U.S will go underground and the price of Pre-ban Ivory will go off the charts.

This is a set of Hill & Sons Haymarket England
Could be wrong but I think I acquired the set from Dylan several years ago.
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Here are some razors that may or may not have been part of a set (there are no marking like days of the week etc.) Three matching 5/8 J Weiss in Ivory, all in excellent condition (bar a few spots of rust.) One has a small crack near the pivot on the face side scale, not sure if it needs any intervention to stop it spreading or not (thoughts?). Apologies to a certain 'guy of science' whom I believe was also after these. Don't worry I'll look after them!








Thanks!

Those are NICE. If I was going to use the one with the crack starting, I might scrub out the crack with a tiny brush and mild detergent so as not to disturb the patina. Dry well, and put a smidgen of CA on the crack, wipe off excess fast, and renwax. If I was not going to use, I would leave alone. Use the two with no cracks! Very nice!

Oh, you're the one who got that triplet of Weisses.

Originally Posted by pixelfixed

Only if your buying for resale,You can Legally own all the Ivory you want.
What will happen is the entire Legal Ivory trade in the U.S will go underground and the price of Pre-ban Ivory will go off the charts.

Living in Australia, with a very limited selection of 2nd hand razors available (especially in ivory), I am taking the opportunity to get some imported now, before the chance is gone. Personally, I think that any steps governments take to reduce the incentive for those wishing to poach elephants for their ivory, is a good step in the right direction. But at the same time, old stock before the bans should be used, admired and appreciated rather than stuck away in cupboards - if the elephant(s) died to make these things, let us not let their deaths go in vain. Its still sad that these beautiful creatures were hunted for their tusks, glad the world (in general) now acknowledges how wrong it was/is.

Frameback, heljestrand, ivory...

What else ?