Thread: What is your most rare straight razor?

That Marsh is an interesting razor for sure. Thanks for adding the link! Great that you kept it original with those big collars and wood scales.
Zak shared some interesting information in that thread. I may have to get him to elaborate on something for me later.

Hi Ed, the Bengall Imperials are old favourites of mine and it's great see such a nice one

A unicorn
NOS 1st generation Red Kanji Yukio Kamijo


Another Unicorn
NOS Yukio Kamijo bellied hollow




This is just the sexyest grind arroun...for me at least.

Originally Posted by Srdjan

I've focused on collecting EKS's - Ewald Kron Solingen.

I've got 3 as well, bought them like 4 years ago at a local flea market. If remember correctly I gave around $8 each and they look to have been used very little.

Here are two that are fairly rare I believe.
Only recently saw another Gebr Dittmar like this.
And with the help of those better than I at research, could find nothing on the Bencini.
To be fair, I don't think Bencini was a manufacturer, but I've never seen another and can turn up nothing.. But with tortoise scales, great blade condition, and a shape and grind I like, I'll keep it! Thanks goes to Outback for the restore.

I like the frameback with the sun stamped. I thought you sold it Mike?

This one I just HAD to hold on to.
I've sold off too many, 2/3 of my collection in the last year.
Many that I probably couldn't find again. But I've still got some good ones, and have been focusing on finding time to simply be able to shave once a week.
Here is a pic of the tang, I love the sun and moon!

Have you had a shave with the Joseph Elliot Magnum Bonum yet Daniel? One like that is a rare find..

Loving those stamps! No not yet Mike. It's still in the same condition, new scales are needed.

I really don't have any rare straight razors, at least none I am aware of. But I am fortunate enough to have nabbed some well-known desirable ones over the years, either off the forum here, eBay, or the much rarer local find. But I am very much enjoying seeing the rare razors on this thread, almost all of which are news to me and I've been doing this a while now.

I'm a big fan of the French LeGrelot razors (the older stamped-tang P. Hospital & Co, not the newer etched-tang Thiers-Issard, which I find to be harsh), as a vintage LeGrelot was the very first good vintage razor I ever bought, honed myself, and shaved with. It had a nice etching and I just bought it because it was pretty, but it was so outstanding it led to a whole bunch of vintage razor purchases of all kinds, an addiction that persists to this day.

So I don't know how rare this one actually is, but I've never seen another LeGrelot like it, and I've been buying LeGrelots for a while. I've seen etched-blade LeGrelots before, and a few with gold wash. But this one is untouched NOS in the original packaging with instructions in French, with lovely faux tortoise scales, over-the-top gold wash on almost the entire blade, jimps, a decorated spine (!?), a third pin, and the LeGrelot bell logo on the scales. A true "double-wide with a porch" razor, the full package. I jumped on it immediately when I saw it listed on eBay. The seller was in France, near Thiers, and I even got a nice French postcard greeting (written in English!) with my purchase, pretty cool. It's so pretty in person that I just can't bring myself to hone it and shave with it. The only razor I own with this honor, that's how much I think of it. I can't help but share here with those who can appreciate.

My limited photography skills don't do it justice, but here goes.

I have a couple of razors I've had trouble finding others of or info about but the rarest I have is this Skinetolin.



I posted a question about it. It appears to be made by F. von Brosy-Steinberg. The company (Skinetolin) was a perfumer out of London and also sold "pharmecutical accessories" but nowhere can I find ANY mention of another razor with this name or even that they made razors. Actually, I could hardly find anything out about the company itself at all. It shaves well but it's a 1/4-1/2 hollow and a little stiff for my taste. The hollow-er the better imho.