Old Spice Mugs...Love Vintage !

**Trudo1** · 02-02-2009, 09:09 AM

I really dig "Old Spice" mugs.

The vintage factor gets me every time. It was one of the first items purchased when starting on the wet shave trip...so many different versions produced !!

Lots of info on the mugs and most are fairly inexpensive....not all. I like to leave mine out for display and usage, always wish they had tops for them. Some came with plastic tops that are plastic, to bad they never made ones out of ceramic or like the Tabac top !!!!! I hate leaving the soap uncovered don't know why hate it !! I use the Tabac top with slight modifications for mine, got to have a top, got to have a top, got to have a top.........

**nrek619** · 02-02-2009, 09:16 AM

been thinking about get one of these...... great idea with the cover!! looks like it fits perfect!!!

**JEEP** · 02-02-2009, 10:24 AM

I have one one the way from paul.c. I can't wait to get it

Regards.

Jakob

**Prince** · 02-02-2009, 10:26 AM

how slight was the modification?

**Starfury** · 02-02-2009, 01:28 PM

My father's has been sitting in the bathroom since he passed-away years ago. I do use his 40's SuperSpeed but not the OS mug.

That doesn't mean anyone should ever get any idea that I would ever part with it.

**paul.c** · 02-02-2009, 01:34 PM

Yeah I used to have a couple. Now I have one. . . a good loss IMVHO

**DeaconKC** · 02-02-2009, 02:23 PM

I love em!

**johnniegold** · 02-02-2009, 02:37 PM

I posted this back in July of '08.

Originally Posted by johnniegold

Wifey and I were entertaining friends at our home last night. Some friends of ours happened to bring their parents along. They are visiting them from Charlottesville, VA. Over cocktails I ask my friend's father (I'm guessing he is in his late sixties) if he ever heard of Shopslondon on Water Street in Charlottesville. He looks at me with this shocked look.

He tells me he loves the place and how in the heck did I know about it.

I proceed to tell him that although I have never actually been to the actual store, that I am familiar with it via the internet.

He informs me that he uses a brush and a vibrating Mach something or other that has a light on it

that his daughter purchased for him. He also tells me that he is wearing TOBS' Eton College.

Well, I don't want to inundate my guest with the avalanche of information I could lay on him

, so I don't.

He then confides in me that although he enjoys shaving with a soap (Williams) and a brush he wishes that he could find the "old-style Old Spice shaving mugs".

He looks at me and holds up his thumb and index finger and says: "You are probably too young to remember, but they were about this high and yay wide. I wish I had saved mine."

I look at him and say: "Would you excuse me for one minute?"

I go upstairs into my bathroom and find my Old Spice mug ( I take the cake of Institut Karite out of it. Hey, I'm generous but I'm not crazy.

) and I walk back downstairs.

I approach my friend's father and say: "Listen, I want to give you something and don't give me a hard time. I want you to have this." He gives me a quizzical look and I proceed to hand him the Old Spice shaving mug (1966).

He is shocked. He is stunned. He is speechless. He is happy.

He held that mug in his hand for the remainder of the evening. He held a vodka and soda in the other hand.

He was like a kid on Christmas morning. I would catch him occasionally glancing at the Old Spice mug and saw him being transported to another time in his life.

All that for a six-dollar shaving mug. His daughter called us this morning to say that her Dad wanted to convey his appreciation again. (What he doesn't know is that I enjoyed giving him that mug 10x more than he did receiving it.)

I love when that happens.

That was the only I had.

I just ordered another one but this time it has the original soap in it.

**Trudo1** · 02-02-2009, 03:22 PM

Originally Posted by Prince

how slight was the modification?

I sanded the bottom of the Tabac lid inside lip 1/8" fits like a charm !!

Thinking of painting to match the mug, maybe a gold nautical compass on
top as a tribute to the real...OLD SPICE..

**nrek619** · 02-02-2009, 07:13 PM

I went antiquing today and someone had one for sale.......he wanted $30 and I laughed....... E-Bay here I come!!!!

**Haiku** · 02-02-2009, 07:21 PM

Originally Posted by johnniegold

I posted this back in July of '08.

That was the only I had.

I just ordered another one but this time it has the original soap in it.

What a great story, I somehow missed it when you posted it or I would have congratulated you on a very touching gesture.

**Rated R Superstar** · 03-17-2009, 01:50 AM

that was a very sweet and caring gesture. I too have a similar story but it involved TABAC. It happened when i was about 10 yrs old. I was helping my dad clean out his closet. I found one of my really old toys he kept all these years. Eager i accidently bumped his Colonge collection and down falls the bottle of TABAC. I was heartbroken and kept apologizing he was telling me he had that bottle for many years. But he was more concerned that i didnt hurt myself. Several Yrs later and with the help of the internet. I bought him the shave soap and aftershave and the look on his face was worth every single penny. i told him i know i would not be able to replace that bottle but heres another one and now u have new memories to go along with it

**ClubmanRob** · 03-17-2009, 09:14 AM

They pop up every now and again in the antique stores here. The last one I got I payed 2.50 for. They can be a good bargain if you don't run into some greedy shyster thinking he has the only one in existence.

The Talc bottles are my next AD. Those can fetch a pretty penny.

**Dadof3** · 03-17-2009, 09:28 AM

Jonniegold - you're a true gentleman. The world could benefit from more people like you.

~Paul

**Spatterdash** · 03-17-2009, 09:36 AM

Wow, Clubman... really? (Remembers the talc bottle Dad threw away two years ago).

As for the mug, I've got a 60's era Grand Turk sitting in my den, half-filled with Aged Spice from Mama Bear, a dead ringer in scent to the original.
Couple of days ago I had some company, one of whom is a Vietnam Veteran and a close friend of the family.
He'd disappeared for a few minutes and we assumed he was in the bathroom, but I walked to the back of the house and noticed the bathroom door open.

He was standing there, holding the mug. He'd smell it, look at it smell it again, shake his head.
Had this real wistful look on his face.
When he spotted me, all he did was hold the mug up and say "Ya know, my Dad..."

He couldn't finish the sentence, and he wouldn't take it when offered, but he looks at them on Ebay and he knows where to get the soap now.
I think we know his Christmas for 09.

**atcstretch** · 03-17-2009, 09:40 AM

we need to hook you up with AsylumGuido

**ClubmanRob** · 03-17-2009, 10:18 AM

Originally Posted by Spatterdash

Wow, Clubman... really? (Remembers the talc bottle Dad threw away two years ago).

As for the mug, I've got a 60's era Grand Turk sitting in my den, half-filled with Aged Spice from Mama Bear, a dead ringer in scent to the original.
Couple of days ago I had some company, one of whom is a Vietnam Veteran and a close friend of the family.
He'd disappeared for a few minutes and we assumed he was in the bathroom, but I walked to the back of the house and noticed the bathroom door open.

He was standing there, holding the mug. He'd smell it, look at it smell it again, shake his head.
Had this real wistful look on his face.
When he spotted me, all he did was hold the mug up and say "Ya know, my Dad..."

He couldn't finish the sentence, and he wouldn't take it when offered, but he looks at them on Ebay and he knows where to get the soap now.
I think we know his Christmas for 09.

Touching story! Hook that Vet up with some Old Spice. Don't wait until Christmas, find out his birthday!

As far as the Talc bottles go, the older ones (40's/50's) sell for $10-$20 (real world prices, not Ebay/internet). That's compared to the mugs that go for 5.00 or so (again, real world prices). I cringe when I see guys paying more than $10-15 shipped for an Old Spice mug- even the old 40's era "Friendships" fetch a humble five or six bucks in most antique stores. The trick is just to take a day off and go "Antiquing" every couple of months, and leave your name and number with shopkeeps along with a note on what you're looking for.