Thread: Do you own any razors and related items you consider PRICELESS?

I try and tell myself that everything is for sale at the right price...
Then I turn down offers that I would have thought I would have sold for...

I am an idiot sometimes

In regards to the fire question, only my Fathers old scuttle is irreplaceable...

Most pieces and persons have their prices and priorities. Push coming to shove, I'd probably sell everything except one set, which I'd use to continue to shave and maintain. I don't have any heirlooms though.

Heirlooms aside, I think most would do the same if things were really hurting in the Maslow triangle.

Fire? I probably would be pretty miffed about other more important things. But life goes on.

There is nothing I own that I would not sell in a heartbeat if I needed to.

What I do consider priceless is what I have learned from the razors and stones that I have, and have had. What razors I like, what size, what grind, how to hone them to the best they can be, and of course, how to use them properly.

Right now, I could lose it all, and know what 2-3 razors to get, and be happy.

Well, pretty much all the razors I buy are on the no sell list, unless I bought them specifically TO sell... I don't really collect unless it's collecting to keep.

That being said, the one razor I would never part with, and would be absolutely furious if anythign happened to came from my girlfriend's father... It's a WorldMaster 194, it belonged to her father's uncle (if I remember correctly). He gave it to me just after I had been going out with her for a year... For that first year he had been cold and, frankly, terrifying... After that one year mark, and after he gave me the razor, he's been very nice, and we've become friends...


Weird, Huh? But that's the one razor I'd never let go of, just because of the turning point it marks, and how wonderful of a gift that was.

Even if it's getting rescaled by Max later this summer

I have a Dubl Duck Wonderedge that I received from my Mother for Christmas about 30 years ago.
She ran a country store and there was an old Barber who came by every week, he was in his 70's and an active barber.
One day I was visiting my mother and she said that Ted the Barber was going to retire and close down his shop. I casually mentioned for her to ask him if he had a good straight razor for sale. This was in the fall of the year and I forgot about it.
That Christmas we were sitting around after dinner and Mother handed me a small box wrapped in red and green paper.
I opened it up and there was the Wonderedge. She had bought the razor from Ted and he told her to tell me that he had "tuned it up" and it was a good shaver. I had not idea what it was worth and ask Mother what she had to give for the razor and she said $18.00. The only other razor I have ever used that will come close to the performance of this razor is a Filarmonica EPBD.
I also have a wooden bowl that my grandfather received as a gift in 1946 from my aunt. It had a sticker on the bottom of the bowl that said D. R. Harris, England. Shaving soap came in it.
These two items are a link to my Mother and Grandfather. They are valuable to me.

Why yes, yes I have some of those things with which I won't part. I just don't remember where I put them, but of course, that makes it all the harder to part with them even if the priceless were to acquire prices.

Looks like it's going to be a long climb.

I have my grandfathers Swede, so it is maybe closest to priceless, but after all it is just an excellent shaver and that's all about it.
Most items have their prices. I think there is no single thing i own i wouldn't sell if things went that way and if the price was right.
And what it comes to fire they are just items after all. Of course i would be dissapointed but sooner or later i would pick myself (at least ) 2 or 3 razors and kept on going.

Now, I'll preface my remarks by stating that I have no plans, or even thoughts of turning over any of my razors, but the only one I would find to be irreplaceable would be the NOS Hyashi Diamond 8000.
I received it at a great price through the kindness of a fine gentleman, so to me at least, that razor cannot be replaced.... And I care for it as such.

This one:

http://straightrazorpalace.com/razor...ent-my-dd.html

After all the hemming and hawing over what to do, I realized why I needed to keep it in my rotation. Yesterday was a long hot day, hosting a horde of 9 year olds at my daughters birthday party, then cleaning up afterwards. I was beat. I decided I need to relax and have the perfect shave to end my day in a relaxing way. The Goldenedge did not let me down.

Goog

My Heljestrand 31 is the only definite NO SALE in my collection because it was the razor that cut me worse than I've ever been cut before. It taught me valuable lessons. May sound funny, but it earned my deep respect so I can never sell it. It's priceless.