Antique Store Finds - Any Worth Picking Up?

While out at some local antique stores searching for DE, SE, and other shave related items (honest, I wasn't planning on checking out the straights!!) I came across some straights that, to my untrained eye, seemed worthy of getting a few pics and asking the right people.


Without further ado:

This Wade & Butcher is listed for $12...
http://www.theshaveden.com/forum/att...4&d=1233264497

http://www.theshaveden.com/forum/att...5&d=1233264517



http://www.theshaveden.com/forum/att...7&d=1233264553




This Wade & Butcher was listed as $25. This is the one out of them all that I really like the most.

http://www.theshaveden.com/forum/att...9&d=1233264575

http://www.theshaveden.com/forum/att...0&d=1233264585

http://www.theshaveden.com/forum/att...1&d=1233264595

http://www.theshaveden.com/forum/att...2&d=1233264604

Part 2:


This is a 5 Pack of straights listed for $48:
In the interest of saving some space, I'll only post the group shot, and if there's more interest I can post some of the close ups...

http://www.theshaveden.com/forum/att...9&d=1233264159


SWORD - listed as $25:

http://www.theshaveden.com/forum/att...8&d=1233266731

http://www.theshaveden.com/forum/att...9&d=1233266740

http://www.theshaveden.com/forum/att...0&d=1233266749


The Old English Razor - listed as $20:
On the one side of the tang it's marked "BENGALL, on the other side it's marked: Concaved by Friedmann & Lauterjung

http://www.theshaveden.com/forum/att...1&d=1233266768

http://www.theshaveden.com/forum/att...2&d=1233266775

http://www.theshaveden.com/forum/att...3&d=1233266785

Nice! Someone keeps the local antique stores around me empty, I gotta figure out who it is :mad:

I didn't see anything that didn't look like it would clean up and shave nicely. Condition of the scales (handles) is another issue. I would probably go for the Wade & Butchers and maybe a couple of hollow grinds. See if they will give you a package deal. Moe guys will chime in with their observations but you certainly will have some decent razors to start. :gl:

I also like the same W & B you like. I have one and it is a great shaver. You won't go wrong with it. Me , being the PIG that I am, would try to get a package deal as referred to above.:D

nice, they all seem like good finds, go w&b razors since you may sell them faster at the s r p. or go with what most of the pros from here tell you. it's no brainer to follow the advisre from the pros.

Thanks guys for the info. I thought the Wade & Butcher was decent, but being a novice I wanted some assurance and advice.

they would go home with me keep waht you like and sell ,well they would be none left.

I like them all (of course), but in particular I really like the W&B with the slight smile + the barber's notch in pictures 5&6. That's the nugget"!

Steve

Buy them all. Keep what you can get keen by yourself, sell the others here for a little profit.
We don't mind:D

Kudos to whatever previous owner fashioned a wood scale and pinned it along with the original horn scale on that W&B hollow ground.

$12 is not a bad price on that very first W&B, but personally I would pass it up given its uneven wear on that tapered toe. Others I'm sure would snatch it up, hone it up and shave with it.

Those look like decent project razors for decent prices overall.

Chris L