Thread: Rare razors

Originally Posted by Splashone

That's an easy question. Any particular razor (in decent shape) i have a hankering for at the time.

I don't know that that is necessarily true though it is true when you are looking for something that you see heaps of until you are looking for it.

I can't tell, cause they're the ones no one have
Kind of like imaginary, the 'Holy Grail', yeah, that's pretty rare
It's never the ones you own, but the ones you read and hear people talk about
the ones you MUST go out and buy and once you acquired them, their status changes and new ones become the holy grail
vicious circle n'at

IMHO are two class of rare:
1) is ancient razors of 700/ early 800 or before, even if they are dirty o in not good conditions, are rich of history and are symbol of old era
2) razor in NOS condition and fine worked, produced by a good non industrial producer like old filarmonica or first Puma or some Shieffield.

If you find razor that you can collocate in both group (at good price) you are very very lucky (with rare ass )

a NOS seven day set of C.V. heljestrands MK134s in ivory scales would be considered rare and bring you alot of $$$ on the market

Originally Posted by Substance

If you can't find any info or another one it is rare isn't it

I would guess so. I have two razors like that.

Originally Posted by Frameback

a NOS seven day set of C.V. heljestrands MK134s in ivory scales would be considered rare and bring you alot of $$$ on the market

Lol - yes, with the Saturday and Sunday razors in tortoise - wow!

For me - I'll take a mixed set of W&B's with two Ottomans and some other rare ones mixed in.

I think is vary rare razor
the maker only seems to have made knives & lucky to find any info on them let alone razors

Well since you have a name and address the British Government may have business information like tax records or business registration papers, maybe even a genealogy search could give you the answers you seek.

The Australia government can provide these things if you ask and we are really a carbon copy of theirs...

I was going to do it for Bengall but I got lazy. I wanted to know the year they started stamping T.R. Cadman & Sons Ltd as opposed to just T.R. Cadman & Sons. I imagine it was the year they went to a Proprietary Company upgrading from a "business" for tax purposes no doubt. But Bengall is certainly not a rare maker by any stretch of the imagination.

Originally Posted by andrewmurray86

I was going to do it for Bengall but I got lazy. I wanted to know the year they started stamping T.R. Cadman & Sons Ltd as opposed to just T.R. Cadman & Sons. I imagine it was the year they went to a Proprietary Company upgrading from a "business" for tax purposes no doubt. But Bengall is certainly not a rare maker by any stretch of the imagination.

Dont know the exact year, but T. R. Cadman & Sons went to T. R. Cadman and sons LTD in the 1920's.

Originally Posted by Substance

I think is vary rare razor
the maker only seems to have made knives & lucky to find any info on them let alone razors

No doubt about this one being rare, remember the original thread http://straightrazorpalace.com/razor...fo-please.html
Are you planning to finish this razor?