Belated inheritance

[lister]

Howdy,
I received a very interesting gift from my mother this afternoon. We were talking about my going "old school" with a DE and that my sister inherited my Dad's circa 1964 Gillette Fatboy (I'm still trying to wrangle that one away ) when she produced my fathers old shaving brush. Its a Culmak of some persuasion - a travel brush I'm guessing judging by the size, which would make sense as he'd have purchased it whilst serving OS during the Vietnam war.


I'm organising some photos at the moment, but the description is it has a black screw on base, plastic handle (if you unscrew the base you can see the biggest block of epoxy (or equivalent) known to man)) and a length somewhere around 90-100mm. I am not experienced enough to work out what bristles the brush has but they are very very dense and very very stiff. It has a similar look to my pure bristle boar but it feels markedly different on the skin.

Given its age I'm not sure if it is a synthetic bristle but it looks like the many pictures of badger.

Will post some photos later today and some measurements of the loft, etc.

Cheers.

 

[brianw]

Yes....pictures please....

 

[vitaman]

Pics!!

 

[lister]

As promised, pics and dimensions. If anyone can shed some light as to what type of brush it is I'd be very grateful

The brush is 87mm in length, the bristles 47mm, dry the bristles sit at about 37mm wide at the top and 23mm near the knot.

The whole set (including my recently purchased Merkur Slant):

Bristles as viewed from top:

The base cap:

Viewed side on:

 

[lister]

Just realised, when I said the whole set in the first pic, this was a small representative subset of a much larger, albeit very cluttered, draw of product, blades, pre-shave, ASB, ASL, soap... the list goes on and on