I did not purchase any of these items, however if anyone is interested, I can go back and pick them up for you.... Mug w/ Brush $19.50 View attachment 7393 View attachment 7394 I liked the scales on this straight.... View attachment 7395 Ever Ready with "Lift Here" on the sides, no thumb tab... $18 View attachment 7396 View attachment 7397
looks like a turn of the century german scuttle...{maybe Nipon} either way, thats a cheap price ifn there aint any nicks on it...
I was able to see the bottom through the glass shelf and glass door. I couldn't tell if there were any indentations (raises?), however I was able to see a red 4 digit number, if that helps you any with identification....
kind of a high price for the Ever ready methinks.. would look nice in the collection though. cool find. Fuzzy
Yeah, I thought it was a bit high myself. I just liked how it says "lift here" instead of having the thumb tab.
I noticed that in the pic, too, but it isn't. That's actually a thumbprint where some of the dust got wiped off. Would it shave the same as my Gem 1912? It's essentially the same thing, right?
Yes very close in shave .. but a bit different. But then again even razors of the same model can be a bit different. Fuzzy
Well, the bottom of the mug didn't show any marks... View attachment 7433 It looks to me to be a mustache mug, not a shaving mug/scuttle...just my opinion... View attachment 7434 View attachment 7435 View attachment 7436 And the brush inside was rather curious...the handle seemed to be of painted wood, and the metal band was a little bit loose with an interesting mark... View attachment 7437 View attachment 7438
That is not the Nazi symbol. It is the Native American Symbol for the cycle of life. Just an FYI. I think it is Native American. Could be Hindu. I can't remember.
Nope, that's a swastika. It's reversed from the Hindu/Buddhist symbol you are thinking of--the traditional Asian symbol, standing for the unity of the elements of nature, is drawn with the angles turning to the right/clockwise (I see this symbol everyday--it's used in Japan to mark the locations of Buddhist temples on maps and some street signs). The Nazi Swastika is reversed, with the angles turning to the left/counterclockwise.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika#Western_use_in_the_early_20th_century (Native American Basketball team 1909) I would imagine the brush is Pre WWII and just stashed away after the emergence of the Nazi Germany during the war. It later resurface as someone was clearing out some old stuff and it ended up in an antique store. Cool find.
I believe, too, that the Nazi swastika was rotated 45° to be on it's point instead of a flat edge. It's still an interesting mark on a shaving brush, IMO. And to be honest, I assumed it was a Nazi mark until I started nosing around the interwebs...
The Finnish airforce used to use (dunno if they still do) a mirror image of the nazi swastika (dunno if it was straight or had been rotated 45 degrees), we use to joke that the idea was to scare the Russian airforce into believing that they were hunted by the German luftwaffe when they saw the Finnish planes in the rear-view mirror. In hindsight it would have been even worse to know they were hunted by the Finns, if you take a look at the track record for some of the Finnish pilots. (Hint, some took down as many planes in a day that some Brittish pilots managed in a year). History lesson over...
According to the Wikipedia article, the Nazi insignia was through and through so on one side it was right facing and on the other, left facing. Their flag was right facing on both sides and turned 45 degrees. Hindu and Buddhism use both left and right facing for different meanings. Left and right facing swastikas also appear in Chinese script. Right facing is used on maps to mark Buddhist temples in Japan, as Jim mentioned.
The version that has the mirror image, lines pointing to the counter-clockwise, was used by the 45th Infantry Division at one time. Unfortunately, the nazis ruined anything resembling those symbols, no matter what direction the lines are pointing, from ever being associated with anything good or honorable.
