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Hi everyone,

i have bought the below at a very good price.
I really wanted the Gillette Adjustables.

can anyone identify the other 2 open comb razors.

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luvmysuper

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Looks like one of these:
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Just kidding.
Maybe Gillette clones, but REALLY hard to tell from the photo.
Close ups, and various angles would probably help.
Impossible to tell from that pic.
 
Looks like one of these:
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Just kidding.
Maybe Gillette clones, but REALLY hard to tell from the photo.
Close ups, and various angles would probably help.
Impossible to tell from that pic.
Once I receive them, I’ll take some photo.
this photo is from the advert.

should arrive next week,
the Gillette Fatboy and Super Adjustable were the main reason to buy.
 
They look like Old Type clones. Probably European. I would name the brass one, Fritz, and the silver one, Jean-Pierre😉
Thanks, great idea to name them 😄. They are cleaning up quite well.
I will post some updates tomorrow.

The Gillette FatBoy cleaned up really well, it did have a dropped TTO handle knob,
I’ve re-crimped it and oiled the inner handle mechanism.

The Super Adjustable had quite a few blemishes on the handle, it has cleaned up well, I’ve used a black permanent marker on the handle to blend it to a uniform colour.
 
My guess on the two OC razors would be...Soviet in origin. The second one in particular. The tooling marks on the slender neck from when it was probably turned on a lathe. It reminds me of a part in Tom Clancy's "Red Storm Rising" when a Russian agent operating in Germany is identified by the poor quality of his teeth. A West German coroner declares, "No German did this dental work!" Presumably, even East German dental work was to be held in higher esteem, by West Germans, than Russian efforts.

Indeed, if the Gillette "Super Adjustable" doesn't have typical Gillette date codes and corporate markings, it too could be Soviet. I have a Soviet copy of the Super Adjustable. It is nearly identical to a Super Adjustable and the plastic case it came in is marked "Vostok" in Cyrillic cursive. The Fatboy is, of course, the straight goods. The real McCoy.
 
Not a Potrzebie?
Yes, thats it :D

Bottom picture is unmistakably a Best British came in a vesta match sized tin the cheaper version of the two Best British razors.
No guess, it is a Best British :D [i was too lazy for a pitchers, yesterday]

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Proving Australian manufacture can be as bad as any Second Rate Russian manufacture, Onya Oz, keep up the bad work :thumbup1: [even the knurling advanced backwards year by year :D]
 
Could someone help with identifying the razor in the picture:

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A friend got it from a german chain store called Dm-Drogerie Markt, if that is any help.
 
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