Acquisitions for June 2011

[Dpflaum]

Okay, I ordered a RupRazor Paladin too.

I'm going to have to do some major den cleaning when everything gets here.

[gearchow]

Please don’t tell the score police, but I actually picked this up earlier this year. Life got a little full for a spell, so it just sat un-cleaned in a drawer till this weekend when something reminded me.

It is a Model 52A Rocket from 1951
Gold anodized all Aluminum
At only 29-30 grams with a Feather loaded it shaves like a dream giving a wonderful shave.

I just picked up one of those a few weeks ago with the case. Seems like it was hardly shaved with, just like yours. So now I have the silver and gold all aluminum. I wish I had some of those cream colored blade dispensers.

I haven't shaved with mine yet.

-jim

[fuximori]

FS in finest badger knot 24 mm. loft 54-55 mm.



Best regards
Miguel

[hitemfrank]

Picked up a package from the post office earlier. Semogue 1520, Valobra Menthol and Floid Blue.

[Shaving Sailor]

Just received some goodies today (eventually!)

Trumper's Lime Skin Food
Trumper's Coconut Shaving Cream
and Trumper's Coconut Shaving Soap

These were delivered to my base on the 17th of this month, and after a wild goose chase round my camp this morning I still hadn't found where my shaving goodies had gone. But I was finally paid off when I completely stumbled on my goodies whilst picking up a key from a random office!

I've also got 2 Rudy Vey brushes on their way to me, they should be here this weekend, providing this parcel doesn't go walkies too haha!

[SmoovD]

First off is 05/75 of the Rudy Vey Custom LE:


Next is the Soap for Hope Grand Prize: Simpson KH4 and La Toja Monantiales.


Lastly, some vintage pucks of Williams, an old tin of Pinaud talcum and a bar of Ivory soap the way it was meant to be:


I was just surprised with a nice box from SCS this fine day. The box contained two ceramic bowls of Wendy's awesome shave soap. One scented with cocoanut cream and the other cedar and soft woods. They both smell fantastic. Thanks Wendy. You are the best.

[joshua82]

Got this of ebay a while back. It is in great condition, it would be in even better condition but I dropped it on my shop floor. The last pic shows the damage.

[Quantrill]

You know, maybe if Charlie Sheen had discovered DE shaving, he wouldn't have lost quite so much of his mind! LOL

[texaninkc]

Got tons of stuff this month.

On ebay:
Gem
Fatboy
01 OS mug
Vintage Yardley (oh yea, all four for 49 shipped)

From fellow B&Ber
Chubby 2

Here's a pic of the Chubby 2 with the Yardley and a pic of the CH2 with my Duke 3.

[art803]

mergress long handle

[Dalejr]

Very nice score...

[shavervinnie]

That "tank" of a razor will terminate your whiskers with extreme prejudice. Congrats on a great find!

[mandoman]

very nice

[KM-instructor]

Be fun restoring it i would imagine.

[KM-instructor]

Have you used it yet? if so how are you liking it so far?

[gearchow]

Next is the Soap for Hope Grand Prize: Simpson KH4 and La Toja Monantiales.

Congrats!! I am so envying that keyhole...

-jim

[oversaturn]

From a Spanish friend, I got this...

And from a Portuguese friend, I acquired this...

...and he kindly offered me these 2 little items:

Group photo:

[buma]

Okay, just got in that dopp kit I won from Ebay last week that I was questioning in the general shave section and boy, I think you all were very, very right - what a deal!

sorry for the big pics

inside an almost complete kit

looks like it's only missing a set of scissors (where the nail file is now), and the mirror (which I assume goes in the big flat loop under all the blades). The toothbrush holder and the aftershave bottle are glass and cleaned up easily from the soapy film on the exterior - I just had to replace the cork stopper in the aftershave bottle and bammo it was functional again. But what DO I DO with the two brushes? And why 2 of them? There is also an assortment of blades too, which I have no idea what to do with now...

the two silver tubes are a shave stick holder (I'm guessing as it's a tube with a movable disc at the bottom) and a neato travel brush

had a dent in the side of it but slowly worked it out to almost round. Not sure if it's unused or not, but it is cool.

The razor is some sort of Tech razor made in England

there are no date codes on it but the head is in very nice condition. The handle suffers from plate loss from what looks like prolonged exposure to the leather, so there's some brassing on either side of it where it was in contact with the loop. Anyone have an idea what year it might be? Regardless, nice UK Tech that I'm dying to try out.

Along with this set also came 2 brushes
first, a still in box Ever-Ready 100 brush

box is kinda beat up but it does appear to be unused.

The second one is a butterscotch Made-Rite 750 brush

this one is a nice basic badger and was still stinky when I washed it, so it was never used, or just a few times at most.

I now think that I got a very good deal...

[SRock]

Lets see those July scores!!!!!

[Shaving Sailor]

Received 100 Feather blades in the mail today, arrived alot quicker than expected!