Seriously, why didn't they use the Filarmonicas?

[honed]

Once in a blue moon a NOS Sheffield razor turns up, a bit more common but still rare is to find a German or Swedish NOS razor.
But these Filly's seems to never have been used, it's more rare to actually find a Filly that does have some wear to it.

Were they just made & then put away, impossible to sell because of their late production date & the DE had all ready taken over?

The fact that they are incredibly overpriced & hyped is nothing strange, the sellers earn a bucket of cash for every razor sold & the guy who buys them just has to be satisfied
when paying that much for a razor. So nothing strange there, just market economy in action.

But why weren't they USED in the first place??
I'm clueless

 

[Seraphim]

Well you see, everyone was so used to getting their razors from Solingen or Sheffield that they simply weren't expecting anything Spanish...

 

[dakotaev]

Opens box. "Cheap plastic crap scales..." puts back in box, throws in the closet.

 

[professorchaos]

Lots of razors, not the demand that exists today. When I started this hobby, they could be had for less that $100. Now that no one is making straights, Fillies are the cache of NOS razors.

 

[danjared]

I hear that there are plenty of NOS German razors to be found in Germany. It's that they're too common to seem exotic.

 

[Woodash]

They actually just found them recently: a whole box of NOS Fillys hidden right there in the back of the store room at Thiers Isaard - right behind a box of old Le Grelot blanks...
Whodathunkit?

 

[Doc226]

Opens box. "Cheap plastic crap scales..." puts back in box, throws in the closet.

The scales are cheap

They actually just found them recently: a whole box of NOS Fillys hidden right there in the back of the store room at Thiers Isaard - right behind a box of old Le Grelot blanks...
Whodathunkit?

Yea, that's it, yea.

 

[noahpictures]

I have been kind of obsessed with them.

 

[linguist]

My friend found lots of NOS fillies at a store which sells barber's equipment. Price was under $100. Why they were not sold? Because the scales are really bad and the other brands had much quality razors. I believe NOS solingen razors would be sold for higher prices.

 

[oversaturn]

I believe that Filarmonicas were born in Spain with the intention to be an inexpensive alternative to the razors made in Solingen.
That's why that they have cheap plastic scales and such. They were intended to be good tools for everyday barber's use, not a luxury item - exception maybe for the "Medallon Taurino" ones, and maybe a few others as well.

Even today, when I visit a drugstore, cutlery shop, etc., the word "Solingen" is something extremely valued in a cutlery item. Filarmonicas seem to rank lower than the Solingen ones among those old people, and I guess the same happened back then, among barbers.

The thing is: actually, they are extremely appreciated by straight-razor shaving enthusiasts. Because they are really good. Many shaving enthusiasts nowadays find Filarmonica razors to be sharp, smooth and very easy to hone. And the law of supply-demand makes the rest, and results on those crazy prices that you see on ebay.