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Help me identify this safety razor.
I decided to give up my Gillette Fusion this weekend and buy myself a nice DE safety razor. I've always liked the idea of shaving the old fashioned way with a vintage razor handed down from father to son, but my forefathers are sissies who shave with disposable plastic handle razors, so I had to invent a family history by going to the flea market this morning and buy the razor of someone else's father.
This is what I found (pictures). It weighs 26 grams without a blade, it is about 75 mm long, the head measures 40 x 24 mm. The money I spent was approximately 80 cents, including the Q-tips and alcohol I used to clean it.
The problem is that it has no markings whatsoever, so I have no way of identifying the brand and model.
The seller was a woman in her 60:s, who claimed that it had belonged to her father in law, so I suppose that makes it roughly 50 years old, give or take a couple of decades.
I'd like to know the name of the model, but also how it measures up to a modern quality razor like, for instance, the Merkur 34c that I have been planning to buy. Should I still buy the Merkur for everyday shaving and save this one for special occasions, or can I use only this one for the rest of my life with comparable result? I haven't tried it yet since I have no blades, but I've ordered a sample pack of razor blades from Ebay that I will try out when they arrive.
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