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

My Heirloom pieces are mine till I hand them to the next family member, Most of the other stuff is stuff in the long run. As a few mentioned above... Being a Colect-aholic I have tons of items stashed away and a catastrophic loss would be wrenching and more than a little distabalizing, but if my family was intact I'd get over it and start all over again

I have a few items that I would need a pretty substantial offer to consider selling, but I don't have anything that would be an absolute no-sell.

Well, if it's my life or my stuff, I'll save my life.... but I'll still be very unhappy.

I have a bunch that I have no intention of ever letting go.

While I like to consider myself a user, as I look at the accumulation I have to confess to being a user/collector. While my stash is no where as large as some, still under 50 razors, they are a culled group.

The only four items that I would never part with for cash are my great grandfather's strops, razor (rescaled by Max because the originals were cracked), and Pike barber hone, and my father's brush.

While I don't use any of them with regularity, they are family. Next would be the Livi Takda, but even that does not rise to the level of the others as they are irreplaceable.

My grandfather was a barber and I have now ended up with his last razor. It is a Dubl Duck Goldedge in really nice condition. I wouldn't part with it for anything and might even consider running into a fire in hopes of retrieving it.

I have some stuff that is worthless...

To answer the question: no.
I have some stuff I'd hold on to as long as I don't need the money, like my nakayama and other hones. But I'd sell them as soon as I needed the money badly.

It may seem weird but I am not attached to my earthly possessions. They're just stuff. The only things I'd consider important are my wife and kids. All the rest can burn down with the house. Sure I'd regret losing some stuff, but in the end it's just stuff. I take good care of my tools and treat them with respect, but there is no emotional anchor attached to them.

This is something I learned from my mother and grandmother. My grandmother and father were beyond 'well to do' before WW2. She couldn't accept that they were eating real food while next door neighbors ate grass (literally). After WW2, most of what they had was gone because my grandmother shared / sold off whatever they had to help people survive. There's many a family in my home village alive today because of what she did.

So my mother, and afterward me and my siblings, grew up with the philosophy that stuff is just stuff. Care for it and respect it, but it's still just stuff.

I don't have any heirlooms nor do I have family to hand "stuff" down to so basically its pretty much all replaceable if I sell it. I wouldn't sell my new Iwasaki because its new but I've learnt to never say never

I had an 8/8 Breidora that I thought I would never sell. O, cursed poverty. Most beautiful razor I ever owned, and shaved like a dream.

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The only shaving item I have that's priceless is my Grandfather's shaving mug.



I was named after him and I have the note that my Grandmother wrote to my Father in 1994 when she was passing it down to her Grandsons. She bought it for him in 1927 or 28 here in Wichita Falls.

Everything else is just stuff that would be fun to replace (I'd get to enjoy the hunt, again). My Wife went through the tornado in 1979 and lost everything but her family so we USE everything we have, no mater how valuable because it can be taken away in an instant.

Zacsdaddy

Personally, I'm still looking for that "priceless" item... but some of my natural stones come close.

the Acquisition Disorder marches on!