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04-12-2016, 08:01 AM #1Senior Member
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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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04-12-2016, 08:17 AM #2Truth is weirder than any fiction..
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Looks like you hit the jackpot to me, very nice.
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04-12-2016, 05:38 PM #3Senior Member
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Really nice, another one got away.
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04-12-2016, 10:39 PM #4Historically Inquisitive
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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).
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04-12-2016, 11:11 PM #5Senior Member
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Very nice!
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04-13-2016, 06:28 AM #6Senior Member
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thanks, its incredible that this razor is almost 100 years old.
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04-13-2016, 06:34 AM #7Senior Member
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What a nice find
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04-15-2016, 07:35 PM #8Senior Member
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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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04-17-2016, 02:30 AM #9Senior Member
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Some times ya just get lucky, congrats
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