Well, okay, hardly ever. But he did today 
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I was surfing the web around mail time, hoping for one or more of several packages to be delivered today. A couple of them were really special.
Not to disappoint, he arrived as usual and was carrying goodies. I opened the boxes, hoping for the best. One was as I'd hoped, and condition was actually better tan I expected.
A few days ago (late Monday night) I was lucky enough to snag a 1918 Bulldog. These things are amazing, but I'll just post a pic and let it speak for itself.
I figured the other I was hoping for would get here tomorrow or Monday. Also purchased late Monday night, also shipped from Oregon, about 17 miles from where the Bulldog shipped from. Ironically these two razors have lived within 20 miles of each other for who knows how much of their lives, and on the same day I was lucky enough to buy both. And on the same day, they showed up here! (Mail man came back about an hour after the first delivery! Never done that before IIRC).
In the second package was a 1904-1906 Double Ring Gillette razor, in beautiful condition including the case and blade boxes. Why can't I date it specifically? Well, there's the only fly in the ointment. I can't get it to unscrew! I will consider methods long and hard before attacking it, I want to be sure to get it apart without damage. I figure it's been sitting like this in the box for many years, possibly as many as 80?. It was in a Bostonian outer box, and my pet theory is that the owner placed it there upon receiving a Bostonian as a gift, and there it remained for maybe 80 years.
I am a lucky, lucky man!
.I was surfing the web around mail time, hoping for one or more of several packages to be delivered today. A couple of them were really special.
Not to disappoint, he arrived as usual and was carrying goodies. I opened the boxes, hoping for the best. One was as I'd hoped, and condition was actually better tan I expected.
A few days ago (late Monday night) I was lucky enough to snag a 1918 Bulldog. These things are amazing, but I'll just post a pic and let it speak for itself.
I figured the other I was hoping for would get here tomorrow or Monday. Also purchased late Monday night, also shipped from Oregon, about 17 miles from where the Bulldog shipped from. Ironically these two razors have lived within 20 miles of each other for who knows how much of their lives, and on the same day I was lucky enough to buy both. And on the same day, they showed up here! (Mail man came back about an hour after the first delivery! Never done that before IIRC).
In the second package was a 1904-1906 Double Ring Gillette razor, in beautiful condition including the case and blade boxes. Why can't I date it specifically? Well, there's the only fly in the ointment. I can't get it to unscrew! I will consider methods long and hard before attacking it, I want to be sure to get it apart without damage. I figure it's been sitting like this in the box for many years, possibly as many as 80?. It was in a Bostonian outer box, and my pet theory is that the owner placed it there upon receiving a Bostonian as a gift, and there it remained for maybe 80 years.
I am a lucky, lucky man!
Congratulations! You've bought some very very nice razors.
