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06-23-2009, 12:16 AM #1Born a Hundred Years Too Late
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Gold Bolsters?
Ran across this listing on ebay and the seller claims it has 18K gold bolsters and inlay.I'm really skeptical.Anyone ever heard of this?
cgi.ebay.com/TRUE-ANTIQUE-VINTAGE-18K-SHAVING-STRAIGHT-RAZOR_W0QQitemZ180372280728Last edited by aroliver59; 06-23-2009 at 12:19 AM.
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06-23-2009, 12:39 AM #2At this point in time...
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No, I haven't....
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06-23-2009, 12:49 AM #3what Dad calls me
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Nor have I. I just posted a question to the seller, if he's smart he'll pull the item or at least change the ad.
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06-23-2009, 01:47 AM #4Senior Member
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I am sure it is 18K gold.....plate, and is somewhere between 0.5-2.5 microns in thickness! Not much gold, in other words. SRD razors rock, BTW.
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06-23-2009, 07:30 PM #5Senior Member
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Its... brass.
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06-23-2009, 07:54 PM #6Born a Hundred Years Too Late
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That's what I thought,but you never know.
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06-23-2009, 10:11 PM #7Senior Member
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True... you never know what's out there, but it's more likely that the inlay simply states 18K and I believe refers to the remnants of the gold wash on the tang. But the material for the bolsters and the inlay is brass (looks very much like gold when polished).
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06-23-2009, 11:03 PM #8
He says 2-3 grams of gold. he's really dreaming. The caps aren't gold at all unless its the worst photography in the world. Even if they were 2-3 grams is quite a lot of gold and caps are really thin like foil so...
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06-24-2009, 05:48 AM #9At this point in time...
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Now I hate to say for sure on anything when it comes to vintage straights... but I do know that the name is "18k", just like SRD made the "Gold Bug" razor, they made the "18k", it is just a name... Now I doubt those are gold, but who the heck knows "for sure" maybe that one razor was a special one LOL
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06-24-2009, 12:14 PM #10Born a Hundred Years Too Late
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Seller ended it early.Too many questions?
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