What's this? A gold xmas super adjustable for only $45?

[Mick]

Better hurry if you have been looking for one of these gold plated super adjustable xmas razors

Buy it now on the bay for $45

http://www.ebay.com/itm/111029014554

Oh and pics are required if you are going to brag

 

[MacDaddy]

Looks more like standard nickel with whacked out color balance in the photos.

 

[Mick]

Yea... someone trying to photoshop too much it looks like. Maybe? Maybe not?

Oh well.... there are LOADS of gold xmas super adustables out there waiting to be found

 

[mmack66]

What are you talking about? It doesn't say anything about gold or christmas in that listing.

Did you link to the wrong auction?

 

[Shave_Rat]

From what I recall when I was hunting one down, the gold plated ones are all date stamped O4 or P1, they only made them the end of 1969 and the beginning of 1970.

 

[MacDaddy]

There is something else interesting about that one, in case no one else has noticed. I don't think it's $45 "interesting" but still... Who's got a guess?

 

[LiveOak]

From what I recall when I was hunting one down, the gold plated ones are all date stamped O4 or P1, they only made them the end of 1969 and the beginning of 1970.

You're right. I was recently lucky enough to find a black and gold Super Adjustable with the date code O-4 (my birth year/quarter). It's really nice and clean. I know some P-1 models exist, but that's about it. I am fortunate to have it.

A lot of times pictures with bad lighting will fool you. I've seen too many regular Slims on the bay look like gold Slim Adjustables (Aristocrat) or regular Fatboys look like a gold Executive version.

 

[Shave_Rat]

You're right. I was recently lucky enough to find a black and gold Super Adjustable with the date code O-4 (my birth year/quarter). It's really nice and clean. I know some P-1 models exist, but that's about it. I am fortunate to have it.

A lot of times pictures with bad lighting will fool you. I've seen too many regular Slims on the bay look like gold Slim Adjustables (Aristocrat) or regular Fatboys look like a gold Executive version.

I was hunting down a P1 at the time since it's at least a birthyear razor for me.

 

[alex2363]

There is something else interesting about that one, in case no one else has noticed. I don't think it's $45 "interesting" but still... Who's got a guess?

450.00?

 

[Mick]

I asked the seller if it was silver or gold color.

They responded "silver"

Mystery solved. Case closed. You can all go home now

 

[plshrk22]

I picked up an actual gold one I believe it is P1 from the bay two weeks ago for $20 shipped. Did I do good? It's pristine as well.

 

[JeffOlson]

^ That sounds like a great score!

 

[amishmotorboat]

There is something else interesting about that one, in case no one else has noticed. I don't think it's $45 "interesting" but still... Who's got a guess?

The square base plate and metal bottom.
Seems we've found one for that other thread, if there isn't a second date code on it.

http://badgerandblade.com/vb/showthread.php/332456-Super-Adjustable-with-no-date-code

 

[Sir Lurkalot]

I am soooooo going to throw down the bucks on that one! That razor is very rare and nice! Especially compared to the one I found at an old, smelly, antique mall for $14 in excellent condition with a case in perfect working order. Certainly it is subpar to that offering on the bay. Besides, who am I to question the word of such a highly reputable seller. After all, I am merely an amateur collector who is easily swayed by shiny objects!

Mine has the metal plate also. I would have never really realized the different shape of it had Alex not mentioned it with pics in another thread.

 

[amishmotorboat]

I contacted the seller, and heard back. There does not appear to be a date code inside the head.
I think we've found the missing link showing that the first square bottomed blade trays were made intentionally without date codes for use with the old metal adjustment plates.

 

[Sir Lurkalot]

Is that possible, or is is just faint and the seller doesn't know what to look for? Mine is an O-2 but the O is very faint. To read it, it has to be at the correct angle, or it doesn't show up.

 

[amishmotorboat]

Is that possible, or is is just faint and the seller doesn't know what to look for? Mine is an O-2 but the O is very faint. To read it, it has to be at the correct angle, or it doesn't show up.

Yes it is possible. Check out the thread I linked to in post 14.

 

[MacDaddy]

Is that possible, or is is just faint and the seller doesn't know what to look for? Mine is an O-2 but the O is very faint. To read it, it has to be at the correct angle, or it doesn't show up.

This isn't a gold Super Adjustable, in case you'd missed that higher up in the thread.

Assuming that the seller is correct, this one has a W-2 date code on the bottom of the adjustment plate. What AMB is talking about is the lack of a date code on the inside of the head, since this razor has the rectangular-stamped guard plate that the later models with plastic adjustment plates used.

It seems like the switch-over to the rectangular plate probably did happen during '76, ahead of the change to the plastic adjustment plate in '77, since we've seen:

• NDC diamond-stamped guard plate, DC metal adjustment plate (standard early Super Adjustable)
• NDC rectangular-stamped guard plate, DC metal adjustment plate (this razor)
• DC rectangular-stamped guard plate, DC metal adjustment plate (double-coded razor with W-3 under head and X-1 inside head)
• NDC rectangular-stamped guard plate, NDC plastic adjustment plate (razor with no date codes)
• DC rectangular-stamped guard plate, NDC plastic adjustment plate (standard late Super Adjustable)

 

[amishmotorboat]

A shaving forum with tens of thousands of members.
2 whole people find this exciting.

 

[mmack66]

I might have been excited, but I got confused with all of the gold and xmas stuff.