There is a cabin/cottage on a very small pond that my wife and I rent a couple times a year. I have spent the weekend there 5 or 6 times. Last weekend was my first time going there since I started wetshaving, and we brought our first child, a girl that just turned 6 months. This cabin is about 100 years old, and owned by a family that rents it out once in a while. I think besides my family, there is only one other family that goes there. There is all kind of old, weird stuff in the house, and its always been fun to stumble upon crazy stuff.
During the first night of 4, I was in the bathroom/laundry room (surprising there is a laundry room in this small place), and I see a handwritten note above the washing machine. The note read something like "Use half amount of detergent needed, water is extremely soft).
I never thought about soft or hard water until I came here and started wetshaving, because I had read about how different water affects soaps differently, or something similar. Immediately, I felt a twitch in my brain, and thought there must be some shaving stuff here. I turn around and open the medicine cabinet, and I see this-
Wow, I could only laugh, as this thing has sat here for years, and if I ever saw it before, it didn't strike me as an object of interest.
Now, as small as this cabin is, it actually has 2 bathrooms. I laugh again, and walk to the second bathroom, open the medicine cabinet, and this is what I see-
amazing.
These razors were in near mint condition but they were obviously forgot about, like most of the things in this antique shop of a cabin. Also, in the medicine cabinets, there were bic disposables, and some old cartridge razors. I also saw a bottle of lectric shave, or whatever the pre shave splash for electric razors is called. It was like seeing the shaving evolution of an older gentleman, whom I've only spoken with his grandchildren and his son.
I get on the phone and call the son, the current owner of the cabin and its belongings and I tell him the story. I then ask if I could possibly purchase the razors from him. He told me to just take them, no one uses them, and he refused to take any money for them!
I believe I have a Black Beauty here, labeled P1 for a date code. I think that is 1970? But I have also read that the gold black beauty (or super adjustable) only came out for christmas of 1969? Either way, I brought it home, cleaned and sterilized it, and this morning I had a damn fine shave.
Is the other is a black handled flare tip? This one is labeled P4
I cleaned that one as well, it is beautiful. Haven't shaved with it yet though.
Any info would be great! I have more pics if you guys want me to post them.
Thanks for your time
During the first night of 4, I was in the bathroom/laundry room (surprising there is a laundry room in this small place), and I see a handwritten note above the washing machine. The note read something like "Use half amount of detergent needed, water is extremely soft).
I never thought about soft or hard water until I came here and started wetshaving, because I had read about how different water affects soaps differently, or something similar. Immediately, I felt a twitch in my brain, and thought there must be some shaving stuff here. I turn around and open the medicine cabinet, and I see this-
Wow, I could only laugh, as this thing has sat here for years, and if I ever saw it before, it didn't strike me as an object of interest.
Now, as small as this cabin is, it actually has 2 bathrooms. I laugh again, and walk to the second bathroom, open the medicine cabinet, and this is what I see-
amazing.
These razors were in near mint condition but they were obviously forgot about, like most of the things in this antique shop of a cabin. Also, in the medicine cabinets, there were bic disposables, and some old cartridge razors. I also saw a bottle of lectric shave, or whatever the pre shave splash for electric razors is called. It was like seeing the shaving evolution of an older gentleman, whom I've only spoken with his grandchildren and his son.
I get on the phone and call the son, the current owner of the cabin and its belongings and I tell him the story. I then ask if I could possibly purchase the razors from him. He told me to just take them, no one uses them, and he refused to take any money for them!
I believe I have a Black Beauty here, labeled P1 for a date code. I think that is 1970? But I have also read that the gold black beauty (or super adjustable) only came out for christmas of 1969? Either way, I brought it home, cleaned and sterilized it, and this morning I had a damn fine shave.
Is the other is a black handled flare tip? This one is labeled P4
I cleaned that one as well, it is beautiful. Haven't shaved with it yet though.
Any info would be great! I have more pics if you guys want me to post them.
Thanks for your time
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