Thread: Thaeris' collection

Better pictures :

Last arrivals :

Thanks to a great member of the Coupe-Choux Club who often goes on trip in Japan (and lately met M. Naomi, creator of the Kanayama Strops), we had the amazing chance of getting a special edition of genuines Kanayamas.









It's so soft and beautiful and well made I just can't stop staring at it.......

Second arrival, a nice set of beautifully boxed Heljestrands razors, by Magnus Kindal.



A MK32 wich is OK to shave, and a MK31 wich is going to get cut (and will serve for the moustache and completions)



I'll be right back, I think I need to put my head in a large bucket of iced water.

No words, no combination of words can express my love of these razors, my admiration of intense intent on the part of Thaeris, or the deepness of my immediate plunge into the blackest of greed and avarice despite the admonition of love thy neighbor and do not covet wife or any damn thing someone else owns.

Believe me, I may have a deeply satisfactory collection, I often found in myself the devil of greediness and envy when I'm looking at other's collections of XIXe razors.

It's a devouring evil which is corrupting a lot of straight razors users of us.

Next envy of mine, selling this Joh. Engström



to buy myself a Ralf Aust, re-scale it with ivory, and scrimshaw it to get along with the shield of the J. Dobby

We ALWAYS find a subject to envy......

Sheesh...looking at all those absolutely gorgeous razors took me back to my youth.

Remember holding a huge pack of NHL Hockey cards, Bobby Orr, the Esposito brothers, and we'd compare cards with each other, uttering."Got it, got it, got it...need it, need it", in this thread though, it was just a long series of, "need it, need it, need it...."

Wow - what a stunning collection...sheesh, I have some nice razors, you have museum pieces....beautiful!

Originally Posted by Phrank

Sheesh...looking at all those absolutely gorgeous razors took me back to my youth.

Remember holding a huge pack of NHL Hockey cards, Bobby Orr, the Esposito brothers, and we'd compare cards with each other, uttering."Got it, got it, got it...need it, need it", in this thread though, it was just a long series of, "need it, need it, need it...."

Wow - what a stunning collection...sheesh, I have some nice razors, you have museum pieces....beautiful!

We're weak, all of us !

Thanks for the compliments !

Last arrivals :

Yesterday, set of two Heljestrand MK n°30, tortoise.







Today : late 1700, early 1800, straight "Saccard", S and crown, tortoise too.





That's what I'd call a good week

The Heljestrand MK32 ivory, the Joh Engström and the Mappin have been sold. (Couldn't keep 'em as buying the Heljestrands tortoise). The Greaves was exchanged against the Saccard.

Last two ones, two Germans.



One Böker, all ivory, from the beginning of the Solingen period.



One Ralf Aust, 5/8e, rescaled with the scales of the broken MK31 (it was itself rescaled with a smaller piece of ivory).



The Saccard has been cleaned.

Stunning collection! I throughly enjoyed viewing, but very jealous of that Kanayama strop!

Love the Holtzapffel in tortoise.

Are the domed washer engraved?

I tried enlarging the photos without clear results. Do you have close ups of the washers. Impressive composition, love the finish on the blade, just a gorgeous razor as are the rest of the stable.