Thread: H Boker & Co. "Our Own"

Ok, so when I got into straight shaving I ,like a lot of us, didn't have or want to invest a lot of money in something I was unsure I'd stick with so I started asking family about old razors. Turned out there were some in a box of my grandfathers things. He died in 1952 killed in a crane accident in Atlanta. So these blades were sitting in a box since then. As far as I knew. So, I get 2 razors from my uncle and go to work. They were a Hess Hair Milk 100, and a Clauss Fremont, Ohio. Not a real close extended family so my uncle was a little reluctant to give these up. He thought I might sell them. Ug! Anyway, my grandma passed recently and during the wake I talk to my uncle and show him pics of the razors and he tells me he has another he will give me. That's the H. Boker "Our Own". Well, at the funeral I learn some interesting things I did not know. My great grandfather, my grandma, and grandfather were all in the same plot. I never saw this grave site til now. My grandfather passed in 1952, my great grandfather passed in 1958 and was taken care of by my grandmother til he died. This would be my grand fathers father. So I'm not sure whose razors these were. Anyway, that's the history I know. So this morning I am putting the Our Own back in its original box and I feel something in there. I think It was the wrapper the razor came in. Check it out.




Would love to hear any history anyone knows of these razors.

Thanks

I love the way they Bitch slap their customers right out of the box and tell them the only reason their product could possibly fail is because you are too inept to use it properly. Which, in this case, is the absolute truth! Awesomeness that you just don't find these days.