My latest Antique Store Find....

[bigolac]

Hello all - Not a regular contributor, but lurk quite a bit. My hobbies of wrist watch collecting and my new found love for safety razors has me scouring my local antique stores, and I came upon this nice set:

I quickly snagged 'em and went to the cashier. She politely told me that that particular booth was 50% off for the holidays - so I paid a king's ransom of $4.75 for the whole works.

I'm not to keen on what I have, though - I assume this is gold colored? It looks to shiny to be brass...

I thought the neatest find was the blades themselves - they are numbered - what does this signify? Thickness of the blade, or the way they are sharpened?

All in all, I was thrilled to find this set. Now I just wish I had the urge to cut my beard to put this bad boy to work!! It'll have to wait till spring...

 

[timmy]

Very nice Gold Plated Ball End Tech, I started DE shaving with a Nickel Plated Fat handle Tech

 

[timmy]

Forgot to mention that is a great price of a tech. Now you just need to pick up a few blades and have a nice mild shave.

 

[benpayne]

Awesome. That razor looks to be in good condition. I haven't been around DE's long, but that's the oldest blades I've ever seen. Good find.

 

[BBrad]

Very nice find at a great price!

The small-ball handled Tech is (IMHO) a beautiful design - and it is hard to beat the Tech's gentle ways. A great razor, for young, old, novice, and veteran alike!

Your blade safe is from a much older set - the three-hole blades were discontinued in the late 1920's. The numbers on the blades are a date code, indicating when they were manufactured.

Both razor and safe look to be in nice shape - either one alone is well worth twice the price - super good deal, sir!!

 

[saltypete]

Excellent find at an amzing price. Congrats.

Pete

 

[T Rick]

Great score, especially at that price! That is a gold plated Gillette Tech from 1946 to 1950. They're a very good, mild shaving double edge razor.

The blade safe is from around the 1910's to the 1920's. The blades won't work in that razor, you need the modern type of DE for that razor (from around 1930 to present, but of course you'll want new ones!).

There are date codes in the numbers on your blades, but I can't help with those, haven't learned how to date them yet myself .

BTW, what type of watches are you into (and what watch Forum do you post on if any?). I'm active in that too, though not so much vintage in that case. I hang out alot at Watchuseek (under another name... ). I just shaved a beard of 20 years at the end of April, which ended in me finding this place, and then going crazy collecting razors over a few months. Wild and crazy obsession, this is .

 

[Deltaboy]

Hot Dog that is a great find. Congrads!

 

[Masterofsparks]

Bravo! What a find!

 

[AsylumGuido]

Great score, especially at that price! That is a gold plated Gillette Tech from 1946 to 1950. They're a very good, mild shaving double edge razor.

The blade safe is from around the 1910's to the 1920's. The blades won't work in that razor, you need the modern type of DE for that razor (from around 1930 to present, but of course you'll want new ones!).

There are date codes in the numbers on your blades, but I can't help with those, haven't learned how to date them yet myself .

BTW, what type of watches are you into (and what watch Forum do you post on if any?). I'm active in that too, though not so much vintage in that case. I hang out alot at Watchuseek (under another name... ). I just shaved a beard of 20 years at the end of April, which ended in me finding this place, and then going crazy collecting razors over a few months. Wild and crazy obsession, this is .

I posted this in another thread about 6 months ago:


Prior to October of 1911 the date coding was as follows:

Number in upper left corner is year of century.

Number in upper right corner is month of year.

Number in lower left corner is day of month.

Number in lower right is steel case number.

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Starting in October 1911 until 1924 the three digit dating was used.

The first number is the year of decade.

The second and third numbers are the week of the year.

Therefore, 333 would be the 33rd week of 1913 or 1923. If the Diamond and Arrow trademark is 1 1/8" wide it is 1913. If it is 7/8" wide it is 1923.

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From 1925-1929 it gets real fun.

There is a four digit number.

The first number is the decade.

The right hand digit of the sum of the second and third digits are the year of the decade.

The second digit and the fourth digit, read as a two digit number, is the number of the week of the year.



Told it was a fun one!

 

[southernscribbler]

That's a pretty sweet score!