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  1. 07-15-2012, 11:24 AM #1
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    Default A piece of German shaving history

    I just won this brush on ebay:

    http://www.ebay.de/itm/160840074550?...torefresh=true

    It's from Mühle's GDR days and NOS.
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  2. 07-15-2012, 11:37 AM #2
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    Very nice, and unbenutzt!
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    Nice brush!
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    Das ist gut!
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    Toll!
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    .........muy bueno............
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  7. 07-15-2012, 02:49 PM #7
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    Knowing 'Made in GDR', this might be in for a re-knot.
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    Wie neu!! Gute, alte DDR....
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    No hablo le deutche, but nice looking brush!
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    Back when each auto in Europe carried a small country code plate or sticker in addition to the registration plate, a "DDR" country code was rather rare. I used to know someone who kept a "DDR" plate in her living room as a conversation piece. How she obtained it, I forget.
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  11. 07-15-2012, 10:24 PM #11
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rudy Vey View Post
    Wie neu!! Gute, alte DDR....

    I'm not sure about the 'gut' part....*g*
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    Very nice looking, Nils!
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    Only for a tease...

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    Very nice find Nils!
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    I love some of the cheesy DDR design. I remember at some museum I was at in Dresden or Leipzig many years ago they had a combination vacuum cleaner and blender so you could clean your floor and then make a milk shake. Still, the most cryptic item of DDR design ought to be the decision to put Karl Marx on the 1000 Mark bank note, just saying. This book is pretty cool:

    http://www.amazon.com/SED-Design-194...hu-rd_add_1_dp
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    It gets even better: Recently a bank in Chemnitz (formerly Karl-Marx-Stadt) issued this credit card:

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    Very interesting. I started a thread about Soviet-era shaving brushes a year ago, and not much turned up. This one really seems nice, so congratulations. Now, did Muehle make badger brushes back in the day?
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