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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;LA_Geezer, post: 2844891, member: 89393&quot;]I looked through about half of this thread but did not see anyone else who collects vintage razors. As you can guess, collecting razors is a lot like collecting coins, with the year of manufacture and condition being two of the important elements in appraising the value of a particular razor. And, of course, hobbyists branch off into straight edge razors and double edge, with prices reaching into the thousands for some razors. </p><p><br /></p><p>I have just a few razors, the strangest one being a 1960s Russian knockoff of the adjustable Gillette Super Speed model of the same era. I bought mine, a New Old Stock, from an eBay seller in Moscow five or six years ago. I have a modern Merkur razor from Germany, one considered to be the best of the many double edged razors made today, and three vintage Gillette models from the 1940s and 1950s. None of these gives quite as close or as comfortable shave as the Merkur, but they are forgiving of the cheap generic blades sold in drugstores and supermarkets. And as with anything else, quality is variable among the many blades made around the world (none of the good ones are made in the USA), and is very subjective.</p><p><br /></p><p>The most popular method for cleaning old Gillette razors found in antique stores or yard sales is to soak them in Scrubbing Bubbles, and the douse them in boiling water, a practice far different from cleaning vintage coins, I&#039;d have to say.</p><p><br /></p><p>Shaving the old fashioned way with soap in a mug, a brush and a vintage razor is very rewarding. The shaves are amazingly comfortable, and, with many of the better modern blades being made of titanium, a single blade will last far longer than the Gillette Blue Blades of yore. I spend an average of 48¢ per month on my preferred blades.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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