For those members who do not visit the other two wetshaving forums in the USA (yes, they exist!) i thought to post this over here for drooling a little bit.... Recently i found this antique beauty; what can i say more about it? These pictures say more than a page full of text. Measures: 13,5 cm total height, 7,5 cm handle height, 6 cm loft height, 28 mm knot diameter. Enjoy....! :wink:
Can I buy it before you put it on ebay? :drool Oh geez Peter I should've known it was yours! Had I not been overwhelmed by the pics I would have looked more closely at who posted. John
Guys, i'm very pleased with your comments. Mike, í can scan it for ya, so you can hang a picture of it in your bathroom to drool over.... Needless to say i'm utterly happy with this new acquisition....but i still dunno wether i'm gonna use it or not......
We appreciate your torturing us with such a horrific sight. Thanks for the pics...that really is a beaut.
A short report after using this brush once: the bristles are very soft but have a strange property which i've felt more often in old/antique (used) brushes but also in my Plissons HMW #20: the bristles are neither flexible nof resilient but seem to have sort of a "memory effect" in them: if you push the loft to one side, it stays more or less in that direction, even stronger when it's wet. I can see this effect only in my two Plissons HMW #20....very strange phenomenon...but not unpleasant imo... As for the lather building capacity of this old ivory Simpson: just as good as my other brushes, not worser, not better, just plain good. The loft is very soft to the skin, yet doesn't splay out a lot since it's filled very densely and abundantly with super/silvertip badger. But the handle is a class of its own......very heavy, extremely well balanced and very ergonomic to hold while building the lather, while lathering up on your face and even while shaking the brush dry. But the X-factor of this brush is to know that your shaving with an icon of a bygone era.....
