Thread: I think I just won an interesting lot

I just won a small lot on eBay (me? suffering from RAD? never!) and there is a funny one in there...



As you can see, the middle one has a Grelot logo

According to the description, it has the "Medaillé d'or Paris 1931" (which could match Grelot) and "super service" etchings on the blade.

The other side of the same tangs



Now if I understood correctly, Grelots were not originally manufactured by Thiers but they acquired the stock from a competitor. I did a bit of searching on Lavaley but came up empty-handed. I did however find that Thiers was already selling Grelot blades with the "Médaillé d'or Paris 1931" under their own line, so now I am confused... what did I buy?

If I'm not mistaken the 'bell' on the reverse tang is/was the logo of the Le Grelot .

you bought a le grelot. I've seen that medallion dor le grelot listed on ebay before. poke around ebay france.

coupe choux lot de trois.solingen .lavaley .ski .a voir en vente sur eBay.fr (fin le 07-oct.-09 19:38:47 Paris)

That's where I got it from actually The bidding is a bit less competitive than on other ebays.

I will clean it up and post more pics when it arrives.

I'd say the top one in the first picture is far more interesting with a worked back like that!

Be sure to post some pics of it when you receive the lot.

Yes the top one is also interesting but might be hard to identify due to the lack of marking. The "nice stone" coming with the lot might also be interesting

The grelot will probably stay a sort of mystery like one of my other finds sporting "Biedermeier Nachschliff" on the blade and "224 Weltmeister" on the mark.

It may be hard or impossible to identify like many unbranded blades that simply say 'Solingen.'

But Solingen alone is enough to know thats gona be a sweet shaver.
I wana see more pics of it!

So the worked back actually is a 6/8 etched blade that reads "Solinger Magnetstahl" with a rooster (I think) in a circle between the two words. It has a very bad case of pitting tho... with a couple of pinholes going through near the nose and several chips in the blade's edge in the same area.

The Ski is a 5/8 "Solinger Magnetstahl" with a shield containing an anvil in a circle between the two words. The blade is less damaged but I'll need to fix the scales or rescale it.

The grelot is a 7/8, I'm still cleaning the blade that has no chips and only some pitting along the spine.

Good lot!

Should keep u busy for a while!

Going back to the original question, that is definitely an 'original' le Grelot - I had the same thing in a while ago. The name on the front side is probably the retailer - le Grelot made razors and stamped them for customers as did most of the large makers. Well done - if it's anything like the one I honed up it'll take a great edge!