Thread: Rare Razor prices

Originally Posted by clavichord

Wonderful!! Thanks!! I think I could read your post every night before going to bed. Also: it here a sort of secret password or something similar that I should know to visit your collection? A place, a webpage.. or just a very-well-protected room?

My current accumulation is more shavers than collectibles. I have put a couple in the SRP Wiki database and will add more as time and inclination permit.I tend to be sort of secretive about things like my collecting. I was told that I am paranoid and I should go to paranoids anonymous for help. I tried but no one will tell me where the meetings are.

Probably in the last 25 or so years this country has gone collection crazy. You name it and people buy it and there are always people who are flush with cash and can afford just about anything they want no matter the economic conditions.

I think most guys here would be really shocked at how many people have really large collections of straights they don't ever use. I remember a year or so ago I bought a razor off a guy on Eboy and he told me he had his office wallpapered with them. He wasn't even sure how many he had but at least 4 or 5 thousand. He said he just liked to look at them. He was not the first guy to tell me something like that either.

So I'm not surprised when some of these razors go for wild prices. I'm more surprised when I see say a Goldedge go for a grand then some rusty beat up razor with one of a kind scales go for 2 grand.