How much "unobtainium" do you have?

Grumble, grumble....

 

I've got a couple of Sara's Creations shave soaps & there's only one place to get them. I don't think any of my razors are especially rare.

 

Three Gillette Psychos with the original key, in the original box.

 

Can I get back to you when I obtain some?

 

Here is my list:

2011 Muhle R41 - I want to find a back up but I can't find one.
Barbasol Floating Head
Portland Razor Company custom wester grind Kamisori with a round point. They are no longer taking custom orders and I waited almost 7 months for this razor.
AoS tallow soaps, maybe not so unobtanium as I see it for sale and the price is dropping.
BBS-1 DE razor
Culmak 55 badger brush
Cobra Classic

 

My claim to fame is the 53 Gillette President I fell into. It is a first quarter, too. They only made it 3 years. It is rhodium plated and is stunning.


I also have a pretty complete collection of Jayaruh Brushes which are quite rare.

 

@Jayaruh #3 and #5 Pure Badger shaving brushes

 

Cool.

 

Without doing a complete inventory, the first thing that comes to mind is a purple handled Schick L type that I recently acquired that's apparently rare.

 

I have 2 soaps that are no longer around:

Yardley in wooden bowl

Royal London shave soap

Also have an Erskine a-100 brush and 2 Ever ready brushes

 

I think I have an older Geo F. Trumpers soap that is quite good. If that is not a rarity I don't know what is

 

Sorry, I forgot to specify, I was talking about a soap, not a brush

 

NOS Imperial Leather shave bowl.


NOS Boots Christmas set and an Imperial Leather set, you do see the odd one of these around but not so much the Boots set that is more rare.


2x NOS Culmak Brushes with box and certificate's The Prince on the left is Ivory I think.


While this Brush looks like a beat up piece of Rubbish

The label on the underside gives it value and appeal, I have not seen another, but if most aged like this one its easy to see why they may of been thrown out.

6xNOS boar brushes still in the original manufactures box, these where NOT for sale to the general public they where a gift to customers by the company Dickinson&Gilroys who made brushes in Liverpool many years ago, they never made shaving brushes only yard/work and paint brushes etc.... (The one out of the case is my own one)

And thats all the rare kinda stuff I have (Not as rare as all the others but thanks for looking) I do have a few straight razors that are rare one of which I will only get in a few months time, I will post pics then.

 

I hate floppy soap.

 

Michael Price straight razor, all original. Without a doubt, the rarest straight I own. I've owned an NOS Dubl Duck Lifetime ("Grim Reaper"), an NOS Iwasaki tamahagane J-West, a mint Heljestrand MK No. 33 with original ivory scales...all of which pale in rarity to this.

Michael Price was a San Francisco gold rush cutler who's bowie knives have sold at auction for over $30,000. He's well known in the knife collecting community. Little known fact: he made a few razors as well. I know of four, including this one. A collector/author named Bernard Levine (who wrote THE book on early California knives) had one, another fellow on SRP has spent a lifetime searching and has two, though one is incomplete.



I've got some other goodies tucked away, but not in the same ballpark as this baby.

 

Sweet!

 

Hello all, I wouldn't call any of my gear unobtainable, although I do have , what is to me, a plenty large collection of razors. The list includes a Double Ring Gillette, a 1936 Silver plated English Aristocrat, a complete and correct Silver plated Empire ABC set, Gold Floral pattern ABC set and 13 other various Pocket Editions, around 10 Aristocrats, a half dozen Single Rings, and so on. But not too much "unobtainium".
But I do have two fairly rare brushes, or at least I never see any like them. Although they have been reknotted, I hold them valuable. The first is a MAYD-WELL brush from the teens or twenty a-



And the second is a HELD-TITE brush from the same time frame. -



These brushes were professionally restored by Nick, at Sportshaving.com. I think these two brushes are as close to "unobtainium" as I will ever get. Thanks for letting me share folks, this is a cool thread.

 

Those two brushes are incredibly nice. I think I've seen Never-Shed's with similar design. Thanks...added to my want-list...but seeing how rare they are I may be safe from myself