Now then. Let us skip the "hands down", "best ever", and "totally awesome" bits, despite their being popular elsewhere.

I got this Gebrüder Lutzenkirchen razor off a well known auction site for the equivalent of 27 cheeseburgers. I gave it a few rounds on my 4 and 8k Nortons, then finished it on my Coticule. It out shaves all my other razors, including a Bergischer Löwe, and a Rasurpur Le Grelot.

The razor is a 5/8ths full hollow grind with a fat ridge, much like the new bottom line Dovos. It sings a lot, but delivers the closest, smoothest shave I have yet experienced. The razor is NOS, and has a very nice satin finish. The scales are translucent red, and only took a few swipes of my top secret, highly toxic, east German polishing compound (the man who gave it to me in an unmarked box cautioned me to use it outside only, wear safety glasses and latex gloves, but it out performes MAAS by leaps and bounds) to polish them to a shine.

Apologies for the eBoy pictures, I shall replace them with ones that do the razor more justice shortly.

Ah, yes. It has a baby seal stamped on the tang, hence the subject. German steel - simply cannot be beat!