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New (maybe bad choice) acquisitions... with questions
OK... So I am new to the Straight shaving but it seems logical to me to have multiple razors to choose from and so as to have one while the others are out getting honed... (I swear this is not the beginning of RAD!!! :w) well... I happen to be around an antique shop today and decided to pick up a couple of items, now again I'm pretty new, and well I may have made a mistake in getting these but I liked the idea of possibly having them restored and using them as I like the looks of them and hope this will be possible... I picked up all 3 items for a grand total of $70 and thought that maybe i got an ok deal... the brush is an old Ever-Ready on the bottom reads "150" I'm guessing from the looks of the hair its probably boar and pretty stiff, doesn't look like its bloomed at all but that may be from having been stored for a very long time... The first razor with the black broken scales is an H. Boker and Co. # 387, and the white one I am unsure about the MM is difficult to read but from what I can make out it has a top line that I can only see ends in "ING" and the second line says "Cutler to the Queen" and the third reads "EDINR". now I know there is a bit of rust on these but from what I recall seeing in some of the forums here some pretty rusty blades have been brought back to life before... The white one has quite a bit of damage to the edge itself multiple chips and what not but the rust looks like its all towards the spine...
the real questions I have are:
1) is restoration of these blades even possible??
2) does anyone know what the one in the white scales might be?
3) would anyone here in the member services dept. be willing to give me a rough (and understandably VERY rough) estimate as to what it may cost to restore these via pm?? (maybe using a set of old Tree stamped Boker scales for the re-scaling?)
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