Bonus vintage Williams score

[HoosierTrooper]

I've been on a quest to find an Old Spice coffee mug since I saw a beat up one in an antique store a few months ago. Today while digging through a big collection of coffee cups at a flea market I found this near mint specimen for $9, and inside was a barely used puck of vintage Williams soap. Double score!

 

[instpasr]

Nice find. Does the Williams have any scent left?

 

[michiganlover]

Nice find. Does the Williams have any scent left?

None of the 10-12 pucks I own have any scent left. It just has a generic scent that I associate with tallow (as my vintage Colgate smells the same, as does my Seaforth, Old Spice, and Century).

 

[ginhud]

$9!!!! I'll take it...oh, that's not what you said. I wonder how the soap will be! I swear it used to work just fine till I got to reading about and using other soaps! I sure like the mug though! Ya done good!

 

[HoosierTrooper]

Nice find. Does the Williams have any scent left?

It has a little left, but the other three pucks of vintage Williams I have don't smell real strong either. And two of them are still in their original wrappers and boxes.

 

[instpasr]

To bad Should lather up fine though.

 

[HoosierTrooper]

$9!!!! I'll take it...oh, that's not what you said. I wonder how the soap will be! I swear it used to work just fine till I got to reading about and using other soaps! I sure like the mug though! Ya done good!

It should work great. The one I'm using now came from an antique store and looked like it had survived a house fire, it was filthy. After carefully cleaning the dirt off it performs spectacularly.

 

[mmadha]

That is an amazing mug. What detail!

 

[DFrancis]

Very nice score.

 

[Venom]

Bump

 

[sproosemoose]

Too bad the new williams stinks

I have actually been using the new williams just for fun, I used to realy not like it - but I can get a pretty decent lather from it now too, just not my favorite soap for sure.

 

[talibeard]

Great find and really nice mug but an old and used puck of Williams.....no thanks. I only want to try the new formulation!

 

[SliceOfLife]

None of the 10-12 pucks I own have any scent left. It just has a generic scent that I associate with tallow (as my vintage Colgate smells the same, as does my Seaforth, Old Spice, and Century).

I had one rose scented puck that still had scent. The wax-paper advertisement had been wrapped especially tight around it. I'm sad now that I recall selling it. Man I should have used that puck.

 

[HoosierTrooper]

I've enjoyed quite a few cups of coffee with this mug. Might have to look for a backup...

 

[Antique Hoosier]

I use an Old Spice Mug exactly like that one everyday to soak my badger brush in. I do believe its original use was as a coffee/beverage mug indeed.

 

[HoosierTrooper]

I use an Old Spice Mug exactly like that one everyday to soak my badger brush in. I do believe its original use was as a coffee/beverage mug indeed.

Yep. Sold in 1984 and 1985 as part of a set called "Morning Refresher" that came with after shave and shave cream.