Thread: Worth $15.00?

So I am fairly new to collecting and just picked this up for $15.00 at the local antique store. I really liked the scales. It's an R.H. Hegener. The scales are about the only thing that is in really good shape. I figured at the least I could put them on another blade. What do you think?

I dont know anything about the blade but the scales would look fantastic once cleaned up and polished nice find.

Blade looks ugly imo and is uneven quite a bit. If you like the scales I'd clean them up and put them on a different blade.

The blade is shot, but those scales are hot! Save them for the perfect replacement blade.

I'd go $15 for the scales. Remove them, clean and polish and fond a nice sweet blade to put in it. Use the scrap blade to practice cleaning, grinding, and maybe mounting spacers and scales (if you have some trashed scales).

I'd go the $15 and then clean it and put it on ebay and let a scale collector pay big $ for it and buy a nice shaver with the proceeds.

I'm glad everyone seems to think the same way I do on this. Thanks for all your input.

You can continue on like you've said and make that a third generation blade. I believe the razor has already been repinned once and that the razor currently residing in those scales is NOT the original razor. Look at the file/scratch marks on the scales at the pivot pin. Every vintage razor I have that has hack marks at the pivot pin like that upon close first had inspection reveals that the blade was swapped at some point along the way.

Chris L

15 bucks for those scales is well worth it. Blade's a bit ropey as others have also said. Careful when you are depinning the blade though, slowly, slowly, catchee monkey.