Thread: I can't believe none of you outbid me (not complaining)

So I put one razor on my bidding list, but a really renown brand, but in my eyes had a lot of things I like. The razor did have a couple of rust dots on the edge, but it had a lot of things going for it. The razor has a 25mm blade, original scales with the pins and with an intact inlay, with a beautiful almost triangular spine that flows into a nice proto French point. The listing started at $20 if I recall correctly and for 5 days it went almost unnoticed. I took a look when there were 4 hours left and it was at ~$37 and I was debating if I should bid, but decided not. Came back with 17 minutes left and submitted my bid for a dollar more but I was still not the high bidder, so I set my bid at $45 and became the highest bidder at $40. Just to lock on it in case of one somebody tried to outbid me at the last second, I set my bid sniper to bid $55 in the last 5 seconds. Had I known the real state of the razor I would've gone higher. To my surprise nobody really tried and I ended up the winner of this beauty

By the way any info on the brand or maker? Here is the listing: http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item...024790&alt=web

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Looks like you hit the jackpot to me, very nice.

Really nice, another one got away.

Very nice razor, here some information about your razor, It was made by Gebruder (brothers) Lang in Solingen Germany probably around 1920 give or take a few.

Gebrüder Lang, Femarud-Stahlwarenfabrik. Solingen: Eintrachtstrasse 14 in 1922. Brand name: 'Fermarud' (1912).

Very nice!

thanks, its incredible that this razor is almost 100 years old.

What a nice find

I actually saw that & had it saved in my watch list but I missed it & I'm glad to be honest. I wouldn't want to bid against a member & I'm glad you got that beauty!

I've had to take a break from E-Bay myself, too addicting. It was as hard as quitting painkillers. I now have a bunch of razors that need sharpening, and my left leg is almost bald from "Checking". Some needed (need) the spine taped and a coat of black majic marker on the edge. I'll get my 2 W&B shaving sharp one of these days, they have some hard steel. How sharp was this razor?, looks like a brand new one.

It was able to cut hair, but there was some corrosion on the edge ( evident only with a sub microscope) which I got rid of with about 5 minutes on the 1k. You are right it was almost new, at least it had almost 0 hone wear and outside of a couple of rust dots the blade is in pristine condition.

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