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I honed up Monday's blade yesterday and kept the contour of the previous edge. It's ready for tonight's shave. If the set shaves as well as the one I used yesterday (Sunday's blade) I will be even...

The feel and idea that the material is natural has a great value to me also. I was just honing one of them last evening using natural stones and my thoughts wandered to what the area around the...

There is a bit of assumption here and I would not make comments based on them. Based on Doc's post Ernst stated that a lot of records were destroyed during WWII. I didn't ask if there were any...

CarrieM has been in email correspondence with Ernst from Boker. Using pics CarrieM sent Ernst he confirmed that the scales are ivory, not that it matters. It's a great set either way, being ivory...

CarrieM (my straight razor consultant) found a post from Doc (thanks Doc) that had pages from a 1906 Boker cataloge. http://straightrazorpalace.com/razor-clubs/20761-boker-brotherhood-6.html On page...

I didn't confirm that they are ivory scales and it really doesn't matter to me since I am not selling these. :shrug: As for what leads me to think they are ivory: they are thinner that celluloid...

We went antique shopping again yesterday and got very lucky. We found a Boker 7 day set in what appears to be ivory. Yes I know appearance isn't good enough but since I don't intend on selling...