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Flea find brings me back in the game!!!
So every week on Saturdays in Alameda,Ca around the corner from my house is a flea market. I stop by good or bad just to look around, and very rarely if ever does anyone have anything shaving related. I wasnt really in the mood to go today but something forced me there so of course I went. I pulled in and the first booth I went to was a gentleman that I hadnt seen before so I took a look and what do you know he had about a half dozen straights a few double edges. I kept my hopes low as the prices around here have gone through the roof. He started by telling me each of the straight razors are $15 and as I looked he handed me two strops to look at. Without looking at names I could feel right away that the leather and such was great quality and it wasnt till i got to my car that i actually looked at the names, I didn't think i was going to take them home assuming(yes i know what it stands for) the prices would be high for such great quality strops, but to cut the story short I only paid $10 for both of them. Needless to say I was quite pleased, one is a red imp and the other says genuine imported leather with deep cut diamond Russia back makes it extra soft. I dont know much at all about either I only know by the feel that i believe them to be very good quality and am extremely happy with them.
As for the razors, I ended up taking 3 home for $15 so if they are descent fabulous if they are crap, or I ruin them somehow I'm not broken hearted. Something about the scales drew me to them(I love the look of ivory, couldnt tell if its ivory or plastic but still like the look), and a couple of little things like the $2.00 on one that I hadnt seen before. The razor that says Solingen on the scale says GUTUN on one side of the blade and Gustav tunnermann Solingen Germany on the other side the next one is the fancy ish design scales on one side says Genco GRANT Geneva NY USA and the other side of the blade says $2.00 and lastly the one with the scales that look like like bone or a finger only has the word SERVICE on one side of the blade and nothing on the other.Sorry for the poor pictures
Id be grateful for any information on the strops or the razors.
Sincerely
Christian