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Hi Guys
I won this on the 'bay a while back and thought to share it with you as the storyline is kinda interesting. I'd been wanting a self enclosed kit for some time and this one was in very good shape. So I bid and eventually won. In my communications with the seller I found out a bit of history concerning the set and its' owner.
First, the kit was given to the sellers' father for his 21st birthday. This was during the war where the dad was in training for the RAF. He was stationed in Regina, SK, which is the city I'm now living in. The other part which is an interesting happenstance, is the fathers' last name was Procter. The street I live on is Procter Place. I'm pretty sure it wasn't named after him but it's still a pretty cool coincidence.
So you have a shaving kit given to a young man on his birthday 70 odd years ago, it travels with him back to England where it's eventually sold to me. It then travels back to where it started and resides on a street that bears the original owners name.
It's the kit I take with me when I travel although I've replaced the original shaving brush with a newer one. I've also packed the hair brush away seeing as how I don't have anything to brush and now use the space for shave balm, blades etc.
Cheers
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I won this on the 'bay a while back and thought to share it with you as the storyline is kinda interesting. I'd been wanting a self enclosed kit for some time and this one was in very good shape. So I bid and eventually won. In my communications with the seller I found out a bit of history concerning the set and its' owner.
First, the kit was given to the sellers' father for his 21st birthday. This was during the war where the dad was in training for the RAF. He was stationed in Regina, SK, which is the city I'm now living in. The other part which is an interesting happenstance, is the fathers' last name was Procter. The street I live on is Procter Place. I'm pretty sure it wasn't named after him but it's still a pretty cool coincidence.
So you have a shaving kit given to a young man on his birthday 70 odd years ago, it travels with him back to England where it's eventually sold to me. It then travels back to where it started and resides on a street that bears the original owners name.
It's the kit I take with me when I travel although I've replaced the original shaving brush with a newer one. I've also packed the hair brush away seeing as how I don't have anything to brush and now use the space for shave balm, blades etc.
Cheers
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