Thread: Rare razors

Which razors do you consider rare.

There's probably already a forum for this but I couldn't find it.

A couple of things. How rare are we talking. Right off the hop we can eliminate many many razors that you see advertised as rare. There were a few little known makers. There are some seldom seen models from well known makers and then there is the group of very late 1700's to very early 1800's. There are a few collectors here who have some truly great examples of all of those. I do not have any that are super rare. Some of the more modern makers are hard to find in exceptional condition, Palmera for one. Rare can be kind of a relative term and actually does not always make them worth a lot of money. Personally I like the very old razors with unusual scales, and don't have many and don't see many advertised.

Nothing real specific, just things you feel lucky to have.

Rare could be because they were rubbish shavers so everyone who owned one threw it away.

Originally Posted by aaron1234

Nothing real specific, just things you feel lucky to have.

Well I feel pretty lucky to have all the razors I have. I have a box full of Henckels that I love, but they are not rare, there are a lot of them around, Henckels manufactured straight razors in large quantities for many many decades, and kept a very good quality as well. I have a few English razors from the mid 1800"s that are nice to have. I also have a few from the first half of the 1800's that I feel pretty lucky to have. Most of the stuff I have is stuff that I really like, individually none of it is particularly rare, and most of it is not particularly valuable. I do have a few razors that are worth more than I paid for them, at least in my mind. Here are a few previous posts
http://straightrazorpalace.com/custo...ostenholm.html
http://straightrazorpalace.com/show-...d-johnson.html
http://straightrazorpalace.com/show-...te-things.html
http://straightrazorpalace.com/razor...2-wm-hyde.html

I am with Rez... I prefer the less common models from the more common makers. For me it the 1" Bengalls or a genuine Bengall with a barber's notch.

I find that DublDucks are hard to come by in Aus... but Bengalls are very common here but not so much elsewhere...

I doub't I'll ever see a Wade & Butcher in a store here...

I also found this razor in a shop the other day... I suppose you could consider that rare as there is hardly any information about it.

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

There would have been many razor makers running literal cottage industries in places like Sheffield, Solingen and Eskilstuna. They would have made small batches of razors. They might have been in business for only a short time. History has probably forgotten most of them. The trouble is, you could stumble across an extremely rare razor on places like eBay but you wouldn't know it.

I'm attracted to unusual razors, as these are likely to be somewhat affordable compared with the razors that everyone wants. You can really take a bath on some of them, but a win here and there makes you forget that part.

Originally Posted by aaron1234

Which razors do you consider rare.

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