Thread: Filiymenia !!!

Great Finds,Is funny how that works,best I ever did was find 4 large elephant tusks and two Rigby double rifles in a barn in Norcal
Rifles put both my Kids thru college

Originally Posted by pixelfixed

Great Finds,Is funny how that works,best I ever did was find 4 large elephant tusks and two Rigby double rifles in a barn in Norcal
Rifles put both my Kids thru college

well, it is good to know that killing those elephant has benefited someone at the end

yup, it is really funny, whenenver im hunting i will find nothing or a very small catch, but when im out for somthing else i usuly fall on somthing big, its a pure luck.

thanks for sharing your find ... i hope your luck repeat it self soon

Lessons to be learned from this:

1. Filarmonica razors were made by the tens of thousands, and their current prices bear no relationship to rarity or quality, just hype and greed.
2. Where there is smoke and all that - that's not a big lot. I posted a picture of a few hundred Dubl Ducks recently, and I could do the same with Henckels, Puma, and other Solingen razors. That's not mentioning the five or six thousand Friodur blanks that were floating around a few years back, nor the 1200 or so Heljestrand semi-finished blades we didn't buy at €2 each because who needs that many razors?
3. Someone in LatAm should go looking, because many of them went down that route - I know, because somewhere in Solingen there exist 50 sample cases meant to go to Argentina with 20 razors each.

As for the ARFA stuff: just because it's from Firenze doesn't mean it's high quality. Actually, ARFA make rather tacky stuff. Unless you like like glitter and kitsch, in which case they make incredibly beautiful stuff.

Originally Posted by RobinK

Lessons to be learned from this:

1. Filarmonica razors were made by the tens of thousands, and their current prices bear no relationship to rarity or quality, just hype and greed.
2. Where there is smoke and all that - that's not a big lot. I posted a picture of a few hundred Dubl Ducks recently, and I could do the same with Henckels, Puma, and other Solingen razors. That's not mentioning the five or six thousand Friodur blanks that were floating around a few years back, nor the 1200 or so Heljestrand semi-finished blades we didn't buy at €2 each because who needs that many razors?
3. Someone in LatAm should go looking, because many of them went down that route - I know, because somewhere in Solingen there exist 50 sample cases meant to go to Argentina with 20 razors each.

As for the ARFA stuff: just because it's from Firenze doesn't mean it's high quality. Actually, ARFA make rather tacky stuff. Unless you like like glitter and kitsch, in which case they make incredibly beautiful stuff.

Lesson learned

We can argue over Filiys for 100 years, and that won't make them any less than ones of the best shavers money can buy, yes they are available in abounds does that makes them bad, no.


As for the arfas, they look sold and very nicely finished to me and I'm very happy to find them, I hope that you find yourself a big stach of them one day.

Originally Posted by AljuwaiedAK

We can argue over Filiys for 100 years, and that won't make them any less than ones of the best shavers money can buy, yes they are available in abounds does that makes them bad, no.

It depends on what you know.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSG6C29Q-qc

Filarmonica razors are available in abundance. Just as you said. Great. Good razors in abundance. Hooray.

Next, you may want to do a bit of research. Because you have money to spend. You will find out, very quickly, that those #14 blanks were to razors exactly what other Herkenrath blades are today (and were back then). Aust, Dovo, Revisor, Wacker - pick one. They are all using the same blanks. But, and therein lies the difference, the grinders are what makes a great razor. Aust? An emphatic yes! Revisor? Same as Aust! Wacker? It very much depends. Dovo? I'd very much prefer my razors to be made by people who eat their own dog food. Thank you very much.

Filarmonica? Same as Dubl Ducks. Export quality. Very decent. Nothing more, nothing less.

"ones of the best shavers money can buy"? Absolutely not. If you can find a #14 Henckels, you will see what Solingen master grinders could do back then. And that is not mentioning #14 Mercator, Guilleromo Hoppe, and others. If you want my personal opinion, Filarmonica razors are easily the worst value for money in the market, and have been for several years.

Originally Posted by AljuwaiedAK

As for the arfas, they look sold and very nicely finished to me and I'm very happy to find them, I hope that you find yourself a big stach of them one day.

Thank you very much, but I don't use, let alone buy, cartridge razors paired with floppy Chinese brushes. I have vintage razor stands, and a few Thäter brushes. Less money spent, a lot more value added.

I've said this for years. Sitting in attics and garages and basements and storage facilities are treasure troves of the most loved razors you can think of. Many are being stored as investments or maybe they have been forgotten. In time many will come to market and many will be sold and many will just rust away.

Razors were common objects and they were made by the tens of millions maybe hundreds. Plenty still exist.

Originally Posted by RobinK

It depends on what you know.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSG6C29Q-qc

Filarmonica razors are available in abundance. Just as you said. Great. Good razors in abundance. Hooray.

Next, you may want to do a bit of research. Because you have money to spend. You will find out, very quickly, that those #14 blanks were to razors exactly what other Herkenrath blades are today (and were back then). Aust, Dovo, Revisor, Wacker - pick one. They are all using the same blanks. But, and therein lies the difference, the grinders are what makes a great razor. Aust? An emphatic yes! Revisor? Same as Aust! Wacker? It very much depends. Dovo? I'd very much prefer my razors to be made by people who eat their own dog food. Thank you very much.

Filarmonica? Same as Dubl Ducks. Export quality. Very decent. Nothing more, nothing less.

"ones of the best shavers money can buy"? Absolutely not. If you can find a #14 Henckels, you will see what Solingen master grinders could do back then. And that is not mentioning #14 Mercator, Guilleromo Hoppe, and others. If you want my personal opinion, Filarmonica razors are easily the worst value for money in the market, and have been for several years.

Thank you very much, but I don't use, let alone buy, cartridge razors paired with floppy Chinese brushes. I have vintage razor stands, and a few Thäter brushes. Less money spent, a lot more value added.

Okay okay just stop burning man, how about you love your razors and accept that there is other opinions out there.

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

I've said this for years. Sitting in attics and garages and basements and storage facilities are treasure troves of the most loved razors you can think of. Many are being stored as investments or maybe they have been forgotten. In time many will come to market and many will be sold and many will just rust away.

Razors were common objects and they were made by the tens of millions maybe hundreds. Plenty still exist.

100% agree, lots of treasures waiting to be found out there..... I always love to hunt the mid sized old retailers, they always tend to stock their unsold items for years.
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Originally Posted by AljuwaiedAK

100% agree, lots of treasures waiting to be found out there..... I always love to hunt the mid sized old retailers, they always tend to stock their unsold items for years.
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Wise words. Smaller guys stuck with obsolete inventory tend to keep hope in profit, yet have not the means to sell, or have forgotten of it. Shan't throw it away, they have money in it! Still may have it. You have to get out there and hit the small towns. Talk to folks. They are not on the internet, yet they have lots (that they should!) sell.

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Wise words. Smaller guys stuck with obsolete inventory tend to keep hope in profit, yet have not the means to sell, or have forgotten of it. Shan't throw it away, they have money in it! Still may have it. You have to get out there and hit the small towns. Talk to folks. They are not on the internet, yet they have lots (that they should!) sell.

Exactly, smaller businesses tend to stock old lots until they are forgotten or lose their retail value, but they almost never clear them away as the big guys do to keep the money flow going.