Thread: RAREIST IN THE LAND

Originally Posted by Salsa

I actually don't know if it's real or fake. I bought it off ebay for $30-$40 and posted it on B&B and some members said it might be a fake.

Thats the problem with those "Razors" unless you know about them spacificly they are easaly reproduced, I have one from an auction lot I won, it's been in a box from day one, looked old but felt new, so it went to the junk box.

I have no clue if one is old or not so I just avoid them. Many other feel the same way and that is what kills any one potential item.

Originally Posted by Salsa

+1 I saw one on Ebay couple of months ago and I bid on it but stopped after it rose over $100 :P

By the way would these qualify as rare?
-A 'replica' of a very old razor before we had scales
-A Sentier frameback from Switzerland
-A " ?? & Yeomans" shoulderless in ivory scales
-Antoni Tadross (I read somewhere it's a rare find)

I cannot say anything about the rest but Sentier, or LeCoultre is, if not common, but not specially rare either. I have mine + 2 spare blades. They pop up on eBay every now and then.

Originally Posted by Sailor

I cannot say anything about the rest but Sentier, or LeCoultre is, if not common, but not specially rare either. I have mine + 2 spare blades. They pop up on eBay every now and then.

Great. How does your's shave? I just honed mine up yesterday on my coti. My favourite shaver is my Swedish Ekilstuna frameback. If this is anything like it then I hope I am in for a treat.

The rarest razors ...
The razors made by James Crawshaw, Thomas Champion & Son, Thompson & Barber, Sansom & Sons.
All these makers were from Sheffield.

Originally Posted by Salsa

Great. How does your's shave? I just honed mine up yesterday on my coti. My favourite shaver is my Swedish Ekilstuna frameback. If this is anything like it then I hope I am in for a treat.

It is a good shaver like all my razors. Probably Swedes are my favorites too, but there are few others, rather unknown brands that have proven to be as good or even better shavers than some hype brands. By saying 'good shaver' i mean, in general, easiness to sharpen, how they keep their edges and what are the shaving results.

Originally Posted by nessmuck

i have a Gottlieb Hammesfahr 6/8 French point with a thumb notch, with jimps top and bottom,nice shaver !!!

thats the one I got buy mistake,My wife thought she was buying a Henkels ,(the only name she knew) at a flea market and that was inside,almost like new.My favorite,out of all.

Originally Posted by pedro083

I have one of these not even used it yet but will be seeing use very soon I also know a site where there is a NOS one being sold if you dont mind paying top dollar

yes ,yes I would..just have to get it past the wife-but absolutly yes

For my limited knowledge, I'd say Luer. I've only seen three, and I own them.

So far this is a very good thread.I am assuming that there are no jewel encrusted razors made by Fabrage under the threat of death by the czar that were lost in the 40s and never resurfaced? All the others are very cool though.

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

The rarest were made by small unknown companies and there were so few made no one ever heard of them or has ever seen one or knows anything abut them but they're out there somewhere. If you had one you wouldn't even know what you had.

I would say that there are so few of them that EVERYONE has heard of them,but no one has EVER SEEN one.That would make it mythical