A successful day

[BowTieGuy]

What a day! After stumbling through a number of antique places with nothing to show for it, I hit a little jackpot! All together in one booth at an out of the way antique mall, I picked up:

Two excellent Gem micromatic open combs
A superspeed, date to be determined once the cleaning is done
Two fat handle Techs, one gold in a case, the other silver
A beautiful Wade & Butcher Straight, handle embossed with "Joseph Elliot Sheffield" in fine shape
An antique razor hone
Two old style scuttles, one with a clipper ship picture, the other (by Gray's Pottery) with a hand lettered poem about sailors on one side and a picture of a ship on the other.

Alright, that oughta keep me busy for a while. Time for scrubbing bubbles!

Good day, all.

[ackvil]

Congrats. Wish I could find something like that down here.

[Codfish]

Congratulations! I've been looking and looking and haven't seen anything at all in three dozen flea markets.

Codfish

[BowTieGuy]

Thanks, gentlemen. Here's an update. Scrubbing bubbles and a healthy dose of Barkeeps Friend has revealed a date code of Y 4 on the Superspeed, which according to my chart makes it the tail end of the 40s styles with a manufacture date of fourth quarter 1953. The fat handle techs are in good shape mainly but a little lacquer is gone from the chrome/silver one and the gold one's head is completely brassed. Ah, but now it's lovely polished brass and alright by me. I'm sure they'll both shave just fine. I would post pics but I am on an iPhone and not sure how to navigate all that.