Thread: What is considered "vintage" in a SR?

Having been born during the Roosevelt administration, I know I am vintage. No, not Teddy!

If you go by Custom's policy Antique is 100 years old and vintage is 40.

Tell you one thing ....... in the late '50s early '60s if someone sold something that they had it was "used." In the late '60s you began to see "vintage" and like that. Nothing was used and worth less as in the past. Now it was worth more because it was vintage.

As an aside, Lyle Tuttle was a tattooer and collector of tattoo machines, tattoo memorabilia of all kinds. He became well known for a time after tattooing Joan Baez, Janis Joplin among other celebs, was in the cover of Rolling Stone, and had a shop in San Francisco for over 50 years. Anyway, with his tattoo collecting his cutoff was 1977. Following that he said the biz changed to the point where it no longer interested him to collect post '77 stuff. So pick your year and call it what you want.

Originally Posted by Phrank

I actually just looked the word up, the only formal application of the word, "vintage", is when considering wines.

It's informal usage, is, "Informal a. A group or collection of people or things sharing certain characteristics. b. A year or period of origin: a car of 1942 vintage. c. Length of existence; age."

So, I hope this complicates things further....glad to help!

By me, if it's got a cork, it's vintage; if it's got a screw-on/off cap, it's not (and -- more often than not -- I end up buying the latter)

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Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

Tell you one thing ....... in the late '50s early '60s if someone sold something that they had it was "used." In the late '60s you began to see "vintage" and like that. Nothing was used and worth less as in the past. Now it was worth more because it was vintage.

As an aside, Lyle Tuttle was a tattooer and collector of tattoo machines, tattoo memorabilia of all kinds. He became well known for a time after tattooing Joan Baez, Janis Joplin among other celebs, was in the cover of Rolling Stone, and had a shop in San Francisco for over 50 years. Anyway, with his tattoo collecting his cutoff was 1977. Following that he said the biz changed to the point where it no longer interested him to collect post '77 stuff. So pick your year and call it what you want.

Tuttle inked me in 1967,had them removed in 72

Originally Posted by JBHoren

If it's got patina, it's "vintage"; if not, not (and if someone "restored" the blade to a mirror finish, the clock gets reset to zero)

What if it has had a patina put on it. Like a forced patina?

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

If you go by Custom's policy Antique is 100 years old and vintage is 40.

And Classic is over 20.

My definition. Anything older than me is vintage (not circa) which is a term I like more than all the descriptions. Could everybody else just get on board ? :<0)

I think when it comes to straight razors, anything that isn't a modern production (like mentioned earlier). Same with DE's. Did companies like Dovo have a period where they didn't make razors at all? If so, that would be a good place to look for a "cut off" date.

Twenty years ago feels like 'just the other day' when you're 65. The stuff that was made before I was born, or before I was old enough to be interested, is the stuff that I call vintage, classic or what have you. I guess it is a matter of perspective. That changes depending on where we're sitting relative to the 'obscure object of desire.'

Al of mine are "Current Vintage".