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When the carpet is covered with Filiys
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This was the past year, I found this New Old Lot at a barber supply retailer, the seller was ecstatic that I bought the whole lot, he told me that no one touched those since 1996.
Anyway, all of those are sold to friends in the US as lots, none remained, just wanted to share, these pictures with you guys.
Happy Hunting :)
Now that is what I call a find. :dropjaw: You won't see that too often. :D
Bob
No you don't, I have went to great length to find another, but found none, maybe my luck with the Filiy has ended here. But I always will in the look out, you never know what you can find out there :)
Good lord! I'll bet one just like the Fili the USPS so kindly lost on my behalf while in shipping was in that lot.......sigh...:(
Just gives you that tingly feeling doesn't it...
Thanks for sharing....and confirming that these finds are still out there...
Geez... I thought I was doing ok with 1 Filly 13!
Been searching for a nice 14.
Now I know why I'm having such a tough time!!!
Pete <:-}
WOW !!! like looking at a dream but it's real, nice lot.
Scott
That's enough to bring a man to tears.
Oh... They still out there indeed, you won't believe this just after posting this thread, I went to the post office, then to the market with my family and guess what I have found :)Quote:
Originally Posted by MJC
A small lot of luxurious vintage Italian made shaving and grooming sets, it looks like posting this did bring more that just nice memories :)
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Just ignore the reflection if you don't like the shorts :)
As I said you don't know what waiting for you out there.
Wow, I wish I could come across a stash like that!!!!!
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 :)Quote:
Originally Posted by pixelfixed
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:
- Filarmonica razors were made by the tens of thousands, and their current prices bear no relationship to rarity or quality, just hype and greed.
- 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?
- 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 :)Quote:
Originally Posted by RobinK
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.
It depends on what you know.Quote:
Originally Posted by AljuwaiedAK
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by AljuwaiedAK
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.
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Originally Posted by RobinK
Okay okay just stop burning man, how about you love your razors and accept that there is other opinions out there.
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by thebigspendur
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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.Quote:
Originally Posted by AljuwaiedAK
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.Quote:
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