Unicorn Razor Club (URC)

I always forget about this thread... Nothing unicorn about a Gillette Knack but this one is: the super rare color red Knack! Made in Mexico. T-4 date code = made in the fourth quarter of 1973.

 

Pre merger Rotbart in a wooden case. There are probably more, but this was the first I ever saw.

 

very cool Adam.i had a similar razor ,caseless,but it was only stamped Mond.silver plate .

 

That's also pre merger, Hugo Büchner. I sold mine, now it would look cool next to the Otto Roth.

 

The only Unicorn I ever owned - the Butler Safety Razor:




A detailed description can be seen here: https://razors.click/razors/ButlerSafetyRazor/

I found it for 5 British Pounds on eBay ("Unusual razor" was the only description)
I then showed it to a serious collector with no intention of selling it, just to get some information.
He offered me a boxed Schick Type A repeater, a silver-plated Collins rotary razor and three other razors before I caved in.
The guy has been collecting for many decades and had never seen one before.
I think he got a good deal.

 

very cool..

 

i passed mine along with a 1911 canadian single ring..

 

Maybe one of the rariest Gillette razors out there. This is the only example I've ever seen. A N3 Slim Adjustable not only is the date code part of the reason it is super rare but the razor head also happens to be a Super Adjustable. This is a bona fide unicorn that is so urcy almost no Gillette collectors even know of it's existence. With that said unicorn may not automatically = desirable or collectable.

 

Is a Olaf Rasmussen prison razors considered a unicorn?

 

Put a horn on them and they could be. Honestly I have no idea abut them but if they never did make them for non incarcerated persons then the likelhood of many of them existing should be low.

 

They also made a version for hospitals for pre-op.

 

while probably not a unicorn in it's own sense this german tech was around only for a year or so..

 

A British-French lovechild, a ghost and a unicorn baseplate (brass cages are rare as hens teeth).

 

It has been awhile but another razor that is solidly in Unicorn territory is the Personna Precision Micrometric adjustable. This one is a Gibbs copy that was made in England and can take a regular DE blade without modification unlike the earlier Gibbs adjustables.

 

Is that what the Yaqi Bohemia tried to copy?

 

The Chrome version - I haven't seen too many of them.

 

Apollo Mikron 1.
Mikron 1's are unicorns. When you see them they have a metallic handle - this one is black and the only one that I've seen.
The first picture is what I bought and I assume that the broken black piece of handle is correct.
I turned the "new" handle out of Nylon so it's unlikely to break again. It's about as best as I am going to do with my machining skills.

 

Some later model Gibbs razors that take regular DE blades. The earlier model ones are common but these later model ones you almost never see especially the click pen flip top adjustable.

This one was labeled a No13 and is a differential razor head.


This is I think the is the rariest Gibbs razor out there and in my opinion firmly in unicorn territory. This is the click pen flip top adjustable. I will post better pics once the one I bought arrives.

 

Interesting how the case colors are also reversed from the brass versions.

 

Yes it is, but I wouldn't read anything into it.
I've seen images of the brass ones in this case as well.

EDIT: I thought that the Gibbs 9 was here already. (But it has been a while)