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I have been attending car boot sales on an infrequent basis for a number of years in the hope of finding a box full of Darwins or Bottom dial Fatboys but other than Rolls razors with broken stones, huge gouges in the strops and chips in the blades I have never found anything shaving related!
Today in a modest way my luck changed. A common travel set with two good chrome tubes a small unnamed brush (I've named it Simon the Super Shedder) which will likely be bald by the end of the week, a stick of malodorous shaving soap and the reason I bought the kit....an Ever Ready 1912 Bathroom set style travel razor, complete with a rusty ER Correx blade.
I am familiar with the ER bathroom set which is simply a 1912 with a turned round aluminium handle, this is the same with just a shorter aluminium handle, I have not seen this short handled model before. In the absence of knowing what it is called I shall call it the ER 1912 Bathroom(travel) model. I've never quite understood how somebody could be so restricted for space and weight that they would need an already shortish and lightweight handle a quarter of an inch shorter.
I am thrilled with my find in part because I paid two whole pounds for it!
Now in the spirit of 'taking one for the team' I have scraped the outer layer from the shave stick and washed it in hot water, it still smells quite awful and I am unsure if it is rancid. I shall grate it into a tub and shave with it in the morning!
Regards
Dick.
Regards
Dick.
I have been attending car boot sales on an infrequent basis for a number of years in the hope of finding a box full of Darwins or Bottom dial Fatboys but other than Rolls razors with broken stones, huge gouges in the strops and chips in the blades I have never found anything shaving related!
Today in a modest way my luck changed. A common travel set with two good chrome tubes a small unnamed brush (I've named it Simon the Super Shedder) which will likely be bald by the end of the week, a stick of malodorous shaving soap and the reason I bought the kit....an Ever Ready 1912 Bathroom set style travel razor, complete with a rusty ER Correx blade.
I am familiar with the ER bathroom set which is simply a 1912 with a turned round aluminium handle, this is the same with just a shorter aluminium handle, I have not seen this short handled model before. In the absence of knowing what it is called I shall call it the ER 1912 Bathroom(travel) model. I've never quite understood how somebody could be so restricted for space and weight that they would need an already shortish and lightweight handle a quarter of an inch shorter.
I am thrilled with my find in part because I paid two whole pounds for it!
Now in the spirit of 'taking one for the team' I have scraped the outer layer from the shave stick and washed it in hot water, it still smells quite awful and I am unsure if it is rancid. I shall grate it into a tub and shave with it in the morning!
Regards
Dick.
Regards
Dick.