Acquisitions for December 2011

The second grouping of straights, A Fraternity with the stamping of an Anchor with a star with an arrow going through it. I know I've looked up this insignia but forget the mfg. Next is a W&B in straight horn, quite nice, A Worcester, A Bismark with a neat photo, or sketch actually type inlay in a small frame of Guiseppe Garibaldi, the famous Italian hero. ( I've never seen something like this before,, did you ?) And last a pink marbled Pilger

The next set, again top to bottom A J. Wood, The York Razor, a J. Wilsham & son Wedge in horn, An unknown razor ( hay there is always a clunker in a group ) And last an Imperial with Sure Edge stamped on the blade.

The next set comprises these razors,,
Geneva, A Geo. Wostenholm Original Pipe Razor on blade, A "Diamondine" , A J.C. Eaton and a Shofords (?) Special.
The two last shots are out of sequence, ( sorry I'm missing the group shot where these belong) but the show a Robeson Sure Edge White King ( the White in white and the King in Black) and the bottom a Crown razor.

And the last grouping,
The first ( top) simply marked Warrented German Hollow Ground and stamped on the blade "Britains Pride" the second a W&B bow in horn, the third A Fred. Reynolds Blonde horn and another F. Reynolds in what I believe is wood. The first Reynolds in horn is a great wedge blade.

All in all not a bad haul for one local stop. A decent December to be sure. It filled up my collection of straights nicely with the inclusion from earlier in the week. Up to 90 now with a lot of cleaning up to do. I like shopping in bulk ,,, it's much cheaper this way. The price for all of this was not much at all considering what I walked away with.

You are a very lucky man, that is a nice score.

Wow! I wonder where this lot came from? Another collector I guess!? I'm jealous! Not that I'd have enough money for all this.

This particular part of my score came from a barber shop that was closing as well as finds from a couple of estate sales. My "contact" goes to these things then calls me when he has a bunch of stuff for me to sort through.He holds anything shaving related for me before he puts them in his store and marks them up.
The price I didn't think was too bad considering all I got as I'm not a man of means. All the signs, bakelite razor, Military razor,,and the 26 straights came out to $225.00. I'll be doing a small veneer job on a piece of furniture he's selling so my ultimate cost for this lot will be right around $125.00. (sort of a barter ) Excluding everything else,, just 26 straights at under $10.00 ea. seemed reasonable and there are some I think worth a bit more than that.
As far as the rest of my posts of scores,, all the pens ( post 13 ) were free,, The three straights ( post 14 ) were also free ( well,, I traded one of my custom brushes and a tube of Bigelow ) ,, the boxed set of 7 ( post 17 ) were $125.00 ( expensive compared to the 26 pcs) , and the most I paid for any of the Gems ( post 14 ) was $15.00 in the boxes,, the loose ones were between $8-10.00 and the travel set ( post 15 ) was $13.00. The Dbl Duck gold edge , Robeson and the corn razor ( post 21 ) were $50.00 for all three ( now I'm spending big bucks per razor,, breaking my 10.00 rule per razor). Post 24 with the Injectors were $10.00 ea,, with the boxed one at $15.00. It all does add up, and say, 100 bucks is a lot to some, but little to another, but I couldn't pass up any of them. Not sure how many rabid collectors could. Can you blame me?

I think my favorite is the frederick reynolds

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Fatip and a couple RazoRock XXX

A cased Red Tip Rocket.

bakerbarber said:

A cased Red Tip Rocket.

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Not quite a dime a dozen. Still it's nice to have one!

Jake said:

Here's a cool commemorative from Gillette. 75 years had passed and along with the Levis company, they designed a belt buckle for the hard core Gillette fans. Was there a centennial commemorative also? Did anyone care then?

It does say "Levis" on the label here.

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Awesome score, Jake, as usual.
But I'm pretty sure the buckle says 'Lewis'. From the Lewis Buckle Company of Chicago.

Received from a seller in Estonia, an unmarked slant. It has one heckuva twist to it.

Here's two blades that I acquired with in the last week. A Frederick Reynolds that's a hair under 7/8" and Joseph Rodgers and sons Queen Victoria era thats a hair under 6/8". Sadly when I was polishing these last night I found that the Frederick Reynolds has a crack in it where the red line is. I guess it will be getting the shorty treatment when I can figure out the best way to cut it off.

amishmotorboat said:

Received from a seller in Estonia, an unmarked slant. It has one heckuva twist to it.

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That is ridiculous

A slant ? Wow, looks more like it melted ! But it's cool. I have one ( somewhere ) in my collection that is very similar. I'd know for sure if I could find it.

Jeez, looks like it was pulled from a burning building! Not sure I'd want to put that anywhere near my throat.......

Last week I started collecting fountain pens. I added these this week along with the B&B Benevolent Blue and two Dark Matters and some sample colors. One of the Dark Matters is for a gift for the guy who gave me all the pens and got me hooked. It has an interesting back story as they say ( the ink ) . I got 11 of the pens restored with new sacs, pressure bars, polished and straightened the barrels and caps.. now I have on order another fist full of sacks and J bars to finish the rest. Oh man I'm sunk. The Ambassador as well as the Esterbrooks were sort of rough but I got them restored as well for this photo.

Clarifixer said:

Jeez, looks like it was pulled from a burning building! Not sure I'd want to put that anywhere near my throat.......

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How in the world are you supposed to shave with that??