Thread: Real Dovo or Fake?

If Lynn hasn't seen that miss stamp I doubt anyone has. The thing with miss stamps is that most are mistakes. Like there was a Dovo special that had a stainless stamp on the tang (Lynn might remember this). This was a case of either the wrong stamp being used, or the right stamp being used, but a stainless blade got mixed in with some special blanks and no one noticing. That is at least explainable. I don't see any reason why Dovo would even have a "SLRMANY" stamp to begin with. Maybe the stamp was made wrong and they meant to destroy it and withhold the razors, but one got out? The odds of that I feel are low, and I really think contacting Dovo is your best bet.

Originally Posted by khaos

If Lynn hasn't seen that miss stamp I doubt anyone has. The thing with miss stamps is that most are mistakes. Like there was a Dovo special that had a stainless stamp on the tang (Lynn might remember this). This was a case of either the wrong stamp being used, or the right stamp being used, but a stainless blade got mixed in with some special blanks and no one noticing. That is at least explainable. I don't see any reason why Dovo would even have a "SLRMANY" stamp to begin with. Maybe the stamp was made wrong and they meant to destroy it and withhold the razors, but one got out? The odds of that I feel are low, and I really think contacting Dovo is your best bet.

Yeah, I am going to try dropping them an email now. I may go back and buy the second one and open it in front of them. If it has the "Made in Germany" stamp, no worries, I have another razor. However, if it is mis-stamped as well, I may have a case for getting them to take it back. It may be a hard sale though, as they might not get the difference between "Germany" and "Slrmany." Anyway, thanks again guys.

It probably was one of the Dovos made in their Slrmany factory. This was done so as not to confuse them with Factories in german, germny, gerany, gemany, or grmany.

Seems pretty obvious.

Originally Posted by Pyment

It probably was one of the Dovos made in their Slrmany factory. This was done so as not to confuse them with Factories in german, germny, gerany, gemany, or grmany.

Seems pretty obvious.

This might be the funniest thing I've read on here

Originally Posted by Pyment

It probably was one of the Dovos made in their Slrmany factory. This was done so as not to confuse them with Factories in german, germny, gerany, gemany, or grmany.

Seems pretty obvious.

It should also be noted that Germany is different from Alemagnia and Alemagne. If you have a boker stamped like that, send it to me for disposal! :P

Hey Guys,
Concerning the mystery "SLRMANY" razor:


I just wanted to update everyone on what I found out. At Khaos suggestion (thank you btw), I sent an email to Dovo. They responded yesterday, but asked that I give them a little more time (today) to research it before I posted their reply. Below are the replies from yesterday and today. I told them that I would be quoting it here, and would take out their names and contact details. Here are the two replies:

Yesterday:

"Dear ________,

Thank you for your email. From what I can see from the pictures - and knowing our range of the past 11 years since working for DOVO - it would seem that it is an older razor. I will check with our production manager who is with DOVO for more than 40 years, and see if he can remember if we made such a razor in the past, and if it had that peculiar misspelling of "SLRMANY" in it for a while until we realized the error. It might very well be, as the workers doing the stamping at the time did not know English and would not have caught the error immediately.

I'll be in touch shortly."

and Today:

"Dear ________,

Thank you for your patience. I spoke with our production manager who is with DOVO for more than 40 years, and even he said he doesn't know the razor. The grinding, where the tang (that bears our old logo and the DOVO name) becomes the spine of the blade is unusual and was not practised since he started working for DOVO. That does not mean that it is not a DOVO razor, though.

Unfortunately I cannot give you any better reply. If it is indeed as old as our production manager's statement suggests, it is in prime condition by the looks of it, and you probably have an excellent example of old world craftmenship."

I am not sure if I am any closer to knowing, but at least they didn't say outright that it was not a Dovo, and even suggested that it could be an older razor. I was going to try to hone it on an old hone I have here, but I think I will wait till my friend brings back my new hone from the States. I will have a better idea once I shave with it.

I don't know if Pakistan was making ****ty knock off's 40 odd years ago, so I'm willing to bet you have a legitimate blade. See how she shaves. She's either a mis-stamp (VERY strange) intentional or accidental, or probably made by higher quality conmen then those running the Pakistani shops... but I doubt it. VERY STRANGE.

Hone her up and take it for a spin ..... I'm really really hoping it shaves like a dream for you .
It's hard to think that people would be making fakes all that time ago , especially with an everyday item like a razor.
It's always great to see unique little finds like what you have , I hope it gives you many many year of shaving pleasure .

cheers Garry

I would not purchase a second razor from them, you may get stuck with two knock off Dovos. Show them the miss marking, on the one you have, and ask for an equal exchange. They should do this for you, if not, it may not be real. If they do and the new one is miss marked ask for your money back, hopefully they will give you a refund.
Call the BBB if either of these things happen.

Why would you want to get rid of it? It looks genuine and has an, apparently one-off misspelling on it. Pretty unique, and looks like it'll be a good shaver.