Antique Consignment Stores?

I got paid for a computer job today. The people tipped me enough that the wife let me keep $20.00 for myself even after putting some dough in the kitty for my son's bday present.

I stopped off at an "antique consignment store". They had lots of razors there, I was really surprised, almost 20 razors there.

Unfortunately the one stall that had the most razors were all razors that were over honed, etc.

The vendor was nice enough to take me around to other stalls and show me what else was there that he knew of. amidst all the stuff I found this 7/8 Clauss:

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I decided to take a chance on it since it didnt' look to me as if it had ever been honed before. 11 bucks later I took it home and spent a few hours buffing it then honing it and this is what I have now:

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Sorry that the pictures aren't better. My camera gave out and is now charging. Even so I think you can see the difference.

Is this a good deal or just another so so razor? The 6/8 Clauss I got from Joe seems to be a nice shaver. I can't wait to try this 7/8.

Glen F

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Great find! I've checked out a few antique stores in town. The ones that have razors are severely overpriced. My parents were at a store where the guy had probably close to 100 razors, but he wanted about $30 for the cheapest one :(

Applause, applause! Way to save one. $11 and some polish you say? I've got to get me down to some antique shops and flee markets, just to see what treasures there may be in my neck of the woods.

That's a nice find at a great price. It should clean up really nice.

Well done nice find too.:cool:

Thanks all, I'm glad it's passing the muster so far.

I'm waiting until tomorrow to shave with it.

I got to looking at it though. It didn't look like 7/8 to me. I measured it. It's 13/16. The guy mis-spoke. That's ok though I still think it's a nice find.

Glen F

Thats a good buy!:) and you did a real nice job cleaning it up!

That was my dream the other day. I spent the day going to the many antique shops in the area hoping to find a deal like yours. I found many razors but they were all in bad shape. Even the ones that were semi decent were way overpriced. I pretty much told all the shop owners that they were smoking crack. They didn't like me too much.:shrug:

Anyway good find, let us know how the baby shaves.

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Originally Posted by chris10

I spent the day going to the many antique shops in the area hoping to find a deal like yours. I found many razors but they were all in bad shape. Even the ones that were semi decent were way overpriced.

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That's the trouble with many standard antique stores. The owners don't really know the true value of anything. They think that old=expensive regardless of quality.

I spend more time visiting the flea markets around here. There's often some really good deals out there and 9 out of 10 vendors seem willing to banter in most of them, except for hartville, only the outside vendors seem willing to hear counter offers there.


Anyways, I shaved with the Clauss this a.m. It went very smooth. cut right through the whiskers like a hot knife through warm butter. I'm really starting to prefer larger blades. I don't know if it's the weight on the downward stroke or what but it just seems to shave much better for me than the smaller razors.

Glen F

I found it useful to politely thank them for their time and then come back 6 months later. I then mention that the same razor was there 6 months ago and then I make my offer again.

Just an idea,

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Originally Posted by chris10

That was my dream the other day. I spent the day going to the many antique shops in the area hoping to find a deal like yours. I found many razors but they were all in bad shape. Even the ones that were semi decent were way overpriced. I pretty much told all the shop owners that they were smoking crack. They didn't like me too much.:shrug:

Anyway good find, let us know how the baby shaves.

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Originally Posted by randydance062449

I found it useful to politely thank them for their time and then come back 6 months later. I then mention that the same razor was there 6 months ago and then I make my offer again.

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That's a great idea and it will sometimes work. There's two shops in this area that would rather burn their items than reduce the prices they put on them. One fellow had an old worn out strop for $25.00. I wanted it mostly for the hardware since the condition wasn't optimal. I offered $15.00. He literally told me to "go to h*@#." Several months later I had my wife call and ask about it. He cursed her out too. He went out of business and auctioned the goods. Any idea what the starting bids were on his stuff? They STARTED the bids at his indoor asking price. They didn't sell hardly anything.

The other store here had some straight razors for sale for $70.00 and higher. Evidently someone came in before me and offered them about $10.00 a piece for them, to buy the lot. The lady promptly boxed them up and put them in her basement. According to the cashier they've been boxed over a year and the owner refuses to bring them out.

Anyways. I shaved with the 13/16 clauss again this a.m. This time I did the sink shave instead of the shower shave. My whiskers usually don't get as soft with my sink shaves so I figured it would be a good test. I was duly impressed. My wife keeps feeling up my face. She's doing it now and getting on to me for typing this. I better go :p

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Originally Posted by FUD

That's a great idea and it will sometimes work. There's two shops in this area that would rather burn their items than reduce the prices they put on them. One fellow had an old worn out strop for $25.00. I wanted it mostly for the hardware since the condition wasn't optimal. I offered $15.00. He literally told me to "go to h*@#." Several months later I had my wife call and ask about it. He cursed her out too. He went out of business and auctioned the goods. Any idea what the starting bids were on his stuff? They STARTED the bids at his indoor asking price. They didn't sell hardly anything.

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I love the fact that they went out of business. It shows they weren't business men. In addition they seem to have forgotten "The customer is always right"

I don't know about the customer being always right. I've been in CS and dealt with some real space cadets. We would suspend their credit terms for non-payment and then they'd get mad because they had to pay before we shipped out the merchandise. Others would let the packaged order sit on our shelves for 3 weeks, promissing payment and then they'd call out of the blue and cancel it.

Anyways... This knife shop in a local mall is selling a Dovo 5/8 half hollow for $130 plus tax! The dingy strop that looked like one of those Pakistanis cost like $70. When I saw that, I started laughing so hard the sales associate thought I was mad. Ofcourse they didn't sell any real hones and the guy didn't know jack about straights. I don't know if anyone ever bought one of those from them.

Did you curse at them??? Probably not so you still had a chance to do future business with them.