Thread: 60-pc Joseph Elliot traveling salesman display set

let me know if you find a Greaves set like that !! i'll sell my house and a limb or two if I have too ..lol..

now that is just an awesome collection , and I also appreciate that you will keep them together !! my first thought was I asked myself if I would shave with them if they were mine !? and as much as I don't like the idea of a razor on the wall I have to honestly say that I would put that set on the wall ..lol.. congrats on a LOVELY acquisition of razors !!

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I hate you! OMG! OMG!OMG! You lucky (&^&($). OMG!

Shock.......and ahhhhhhhh wow.

That is undoubtedly the most impressive, amazing set of razors I have ever seen & I think you have out done everyone on here!!!!!! I'm so glad they went to a good home.
Thank you for wanting to keep them together. I don't know what else to say but they must have cost a PRETTY penny. You are like the Dos Equis guy,
"the most amazing man in the world!!!" & "that is the most amazing set of straights in the world". Joseph Elliot is one of my most favorite razors.
How are you going to do SOTD with them???

Speechless. I am glad one of our own got a hold of them rather than someone breaking them up. What an amazing piece.

just magnificent

What amazing works of art!

As promised, pictures of a 1920's Elliot sales kit, or at least the inventory numbers. I got this one without the razors, since they'd been badly water damaged.





And a closeup so you can see how the inventory strip had been overlaid multiple times.



I'm still ecstatic that they weren't sold to someone who wanted to take them out of the cases. As they are, they're an unprecedented historical document for antique razors.

I know, as a restorer, I've often had to guess at what the original finish of any given razor was. Time and moisture does a great job of making a crocus finish unrecognizable.

As I'd long suspected, none of the framebacks has a high polish on the blade... And those gold-tone ones -- I don't know if that's gold plate (Rodgers did that on at least one pair I've seen) or something else entirely. I'd bet on gold plate.

I'm kind of baffled by how the one with streaked horn got that chunk out of it. If dermestid beetles had gotten to it, I can't imagine why they wouldn't have gotten to the other horn scales or the tortoise ones. Maybe an inherent flaw in the scale material?

But the biggest surprise continues to be the incredible variation of designs. I would love to know why so few of them survive 'in the wild'.

I may try and make that Ohio meetup, because I'd love to have the chance to point a good macro lens at those razors and *really* fully document them!

HOLY COW!

WOW thats a stunning set, also happy its staying as a set, congrats on that acquisition.