Thread: Lured by The Eye - latest 7-day set..

Originally Posted by alex2363

im glad for you, i hope i stumble upon the same fortune some day. it must surely feel good. im wondering how did that lady knew what to sell it for.

I don't think it was a matter of her knowing its value or in fact knowing anything about razors, its just that everything in her shop is on the pricey side.. I guess I was hoping to find something shaving related and that she'd just sell them cheap, but, alas she had them marked quite high and didn't want to budge. But like I said, I feel this set could go for $800 and still be a reasonable buy, thats just over $100 a razor and a box for free.... so I'm very happy

Jasper, awesome pickup dude. I love that eye man. and the fact that it's in South Africa, I like to imagine some traveler bought it to take on Safari, then left it behind. cool stuff man. too bad she wasn't in a dealing mood.

Vashaver I think there must be a time period or other familiarity. I have two razors from a Clement 7 day set and they look very similar. I think though that yours look most like this (1 of 7 day set)

That is a nice blade there. You can tell with the 7 day set that most of his shaving was done mid-week. How neat is that! Poor guy!

Yes mine too is a SHAVEESI and maybe some of the hardest steel I have had. Mine has a short tang but the blade looked almost NOS. The grind all thrue the tange looks nearly the same as his.....intersting anyway. There heavy blades too!


Matt

Mine have really long tangs, the longest I have had on any of my razors. feel great in my big hands but haven't had any sharpened yet. Mine all appear to have seen very very little hone wear, but for some reason one blade is almost about 3/32 smaller than the others although marked exactly the same.

Red

That's a top quality Sheffield razor. Taylors are still going strong and they are in Sheffield England. They still use the Taylor's Eye logo on some of their better quality kitchen knives.

My razor hones up so sharp and smooth, I sometimes find it to be too sharp.

You got a great bargain so enjoy. You really might as well stop collecting now because they don't come much better than that.