Is anyone else enjoying the shaving brush history in this thread? I'll never tire reading it.
I have a LOT of Rooney history. I tracked down (in Australia) a direct descendant of the last family-member owner/president, and I dug as deep as I could into M&F history, but kept dead-ending (no pun intended) at obituaries. I posted some of it on another board that no longer exists. I hate to see the history get lost.
I don't want to take this thread off-topic, but I'll share the content of an email reply I received today as a result of finally replying to one from two years ago that I'd missed catching. I came across it while trying to find the emails the OP of this thread had sent without receiving a reply.
Hello, Dear Sir!
Yes I am still here and it's really amazing to hear from you! No problems at all, because it happens to every one of us.
At that moment I was really interested in this topic, and in fact I am still interested, because as you already know shaving is not that kind of a hobby that you can forget about in 2-3 years It's a hobby for life I'd say!
Actually after this message I dig deep into badgerandblade and found some of your posts, I found some other posts on different forums, I checked Lee Sabini's documents in England's department of commerce and trade sites, tried to contact Basil Oswald Rooney's grandchilds etc.
I am glad that I put that much effort because it is the one and only detailed R. A. Rooney & Sons history topic in Turkish. And that wouldn't be possible without your interviews with Rooney descendants, interact with Lee Sabini
And I think that a lot of Turkish people that is related to shaving finally understood that Lee Sabini is not some mystic master that sits in England and masters his craft. He's a good merchant.
If you want to look at what I've written, then here is the album that I've created: Rooney - https://ibb.co/album/X2bHvb
In my post on the forum I gave tons of credits to you. My post, or some kind of review, I don't know what to call it, wouldn't be possible without you. If you want to read I can make and send a copy to you. It is all in Turkish but I believe that today AI based translators such as DeepL and ChatGPT work really well in these type of documents.
That was heart warming! But I should add that Lee was also a clever, gutsy, scrappy, and effective entrepreneur. He truly had a very significant impact on the world of wet-shaving and the surfeit of products that we enjoy today. And he also had clay feet, as do we all.
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