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Here's a little story for you guys.
I was searching random cities on Craigslist looking for straights, a hobby that is usually not fruitful but that I do when I am bored. I came across a link for a lot of vintage straights, 8 to be exact, and two hones. The hones are of unknown origin according to the seller, but the razors are seven (yes...7) dubl duck goldedges in "great" condition, and a dubl duck special #1 in "excellent" condition. The price..."make me a reasonable offer".
Now, I won't say what I paid for these, but the offer was reasonable for buying them after just one low-res picture, and pretty much sight unseen. To my surprise the response I got back in e-mail was from a very nice woman. After a few exchanges, she told me that the razors actually came from her place of former employment. She worked at a forensic mental institution outside of Richmond Virginia that she said was quite famous, and was the actual place where they filmed the movie Hannibal. She took the job as barber and recreational therapist (I know, weird combo) about 15 years ago, and when she got there the razors were in a drawer and apparently untouched for years. Her supervisor asked her to throw them out, but she insisted that she take them home and keep them, to which the supervisor obliged. She's held onto them for this amount of time but is now moving and is trying to get rid of some stuff that she has around her house. When I think about who may have actually been shaved with these razors at a mental institution that she said housed some prolific and notorious criminals, I get both creeped out and excited!
They have been shipped via UPS as of Thursday and are scheduled to be delivered to my apartment on Monday. I will have some pictures up as to the quality of these ducks. Needless to say, this is pretty cool. I plan on turning this into a seven day set and putting them to good use.
Here's a little story for you guys.
I was searching random cities on Craigslist looking for straights, a hobby that is usually not fruitful but that I do when I am bored. I came across a link for a lot of vintage straights, 8 to be exact, and two hones. The hones are of unknown origin according to the seller, but the razors are seven (yes...7) dubl duck goldedges in "great" condition, and a dubl duck special #1 in "excellent" condition. The price..."make me a reasonable offer".
Now, I won't say what I paid for these, but the offer was reasonable for buying them after just one low-res picture, and pretty much sight unseen. To my surprise the response I got back in e-mail was from a very nice woman. After a few exchanges, she told me that the razors actually came from her place of former employment. She worked at a forensic mental institution outside of Richmond Virginia that she said was quite famous, and was the actual place where they filmed the movie Hannibal. She took the job as barber and recreational therapist (I know, weird combo) about 15 years ago, and when she got there the razors were in a drawer and apparently untouched for years. Her supervisor asked her to throw them out, but she insisted that she take them home and keep them, to which the supervisor obliged. She's held onto them for this amount of time but is now moving and is trying to get rid of some stuff that she has around her house. When I think about who may have actually been shaved with these razors at a mental institution that she said housed some prolific and notorious criminals, I get both creeped out and excited!
They have been shipped via UPS as of Thursday and are scheduled to be delivered to my apartment on Monday. I will have some pictures up as to the quality of these ducks. Needless to say, this is pretty cool. I plan on turning this into a seven day set and putting them to good use.
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