Vintage “Boots” badger brush
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Boots is a pharmacy chain in the UK. That's all I know.
I don't know, but that's a nice catch. I'd guess Simpson or Rooney. But that's just a guess.
Maybe Vulfix?
Yes. I don't know much (almost none) Vulfix history.
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I found an old link here at B&B, they mentioned it was made by Simpson for another company. However, the link to the catalog is not longer good.
www.badgerandblade.com
Boots #4 shaving brush??
Have any of you fellas ever heard of, or used one of these brushes? It is a Boots number four. At least, that is what it says.
www.badgerandblade.com
Nice looking brush. My bet is that this is a rebranded Simpsons (but just a guess).
Here is an archived link. It's not an identical logo, presumably older than the one posted in this thread. It does resemble "The Special" model in the link, at a cursory glance.I found an old link here at B&B, they mentioned it was made by Simpson for another company. However, the link to the catalog is not longer good.
Boots #4 shaving brush??
Have any of you fellas ever heard of, or used one of these brushes? It is a Boots number four. At least, that is what it says.
Looks Simpsons to me. BTW, Simpsons and Vulfix are, at present, two brands made by the same company.
The ring seems a little more rounded but the shape is very close.
Note on the bottom of page 23 is the Boots imprint they would have used.
Thank you for providing that catalog link, Lil Cooties!
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Thank you for the archived link. Yes, it is close but not exactly the same for sure.
So yeah (as @Whiterook said) Boots is now the largest high street pharmacist in the UK. Logo (and no doubt ownership) will have changed over time, but it's the same brand as in the link. And it'd be almost impossible to know for certain who made that brush because nowadays you can buy Boots 'own brand' anything; from shaving brushes, to shampoo, to cola, to codeine.
Could be quite posh though, I don't see any reason it couldn't be from Simpson given they made shaving brushes for Boots. I got an old Boots straight in a lot a while back and it had ivory scales, which is usually quite telling. Blade was chipped, but I was certainly happy to re-purpose the scales.
(It's not quite beyond repair though, and you'd be more than welcome to it if you'd like!)
Could be quite posh though, I don't see any reason it couldn't be from Simpson given they made shaving brushes for Boots. I got an old Boots straight in a lot a while back and it had ivory scales, which is usually quite telling. Blade was chipped, but I was certainly happy to re-purpose the scales.
(It's not quite beyond repair though, and you'd be more than welcome to it if you'd like!)
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Thank you for the additional information. As for the straight razor, I recently gave up doing restorations and I’m working on liquidating the last of my vintage straights.
I am now focusing on knife making.
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And fwiw - Boots definitely don't sell a brush like that nowadays, it's all mass produced in china with synthetic fibres kinda stuff. So it's definitely quite old. At a random guess, based purely on the style of the branding, I'd guess about 50 years.
(Nice work btw! I also happen to work in the knifemaking game, though mostly kitchen knives).
