FS: Gillette Toggle razor (F4) user-grade

**WhosYerBob** · 12-27-2009, 12:04 PM

SOLD!

Next up is the following:

Item: Gillette Toggle razor, with a production date code of F4 (winter of 1960). No box or papers. I picked it up to see how I would like a Toggle and decided to buy another one to keep in my minimalist kit. This one goes out to another that would like to try the Toggle legend for themselves.

Condition: User-grade, as can be seen from the photos. It has all sorts of blemishes; plating wear on the head and bars, paint missing from the numbers, thinning of all the varnish, etc. It's obviously been used hard over it's life. I have cleaned it up, polished it and it's now a very slick shaver. It may not be cosmetically perfect, but mechanically it's in excellent shape. This razor is shave-ready; it has been cleaned with Scrubbing Bubbles, sterilized with Barbicide, then treated with 91% alcohol before being wrapped up and shipped out. No extra packaging is included. What you see in the image is what you get.

Amount used: Used for two months.

Prices: I'll sell it for $35 via PayPal, shipped.

Shipping: CONUS only, and I ship it via USPS Priority Mail.

**BBrad** · 12-27-2009, 12:08 PM

PM on the way

**bythbook** · 12-27-2009, 12:08 PM

PM sent

**WhosYerBob** · 12-27-2009, 12:17 PM

On hold - sale pending. Bythbook got his PM to me first, then posted here afterward.

**WhosYerBob** · 12-27-2009, 12:41 PM

Sold - thanks B&B!

**bythbook** · 01-02-2010, 02:52 PM

Received this today - my first Toggle - much better condition than Mitch indicated - can't wait to give this one a try - look for it in tomorrow's SOTD!

Jon

**strat1117** · 01-02-2010, 02:57 PM

Jon -- you always get the good ones.

Enjoy it!

Congrats to Mitch and Jon -- two of B&B's finest Gentlemen.

**bythbook** · 01-02-2010, 02:58 PM

Originally Posted by strat1117

Jon -- you always get the good ones.

Enjoy it!

Congrats to Mitch and Jon -- two of B&B's finest Gentlemen.

well, thanks, Neil!

[buy the diver... c'mon - you know you want it...!]

**grump** · 01-02-2010, 03:05 PM

Wow Jon, excellent purchase!

**benvh** · 01-02-2010, 03:12 PM

Nice score! I'd like to try a toggle one day. Enjoy it and congrats on a good buy!

**hypo_style** · 01-03-2010, 04:42 PM

What a great deal. Congrats, guys!

**bythbook** · 01-03-2010, 04:53 PM

Originally Posted by hypo_style

What a great deal. Congrats, guys!

I shaved with it this morning - very nice shave! I see what all the hype over Toggles is about, I think...

my SOTD pic:

I'm thinking I should write a celebration of shaver-capable vintage razors - the lookers are nice, but for the value... a well used, mechanically sound vintage razor can't be beat!