Picked up some straight's, any opinions?

The antique sales out here are right around this period of time out here, march april ish so i'll be busy the next few weekends rooting around everywhere I can

 

Scale materials

Older razors came in a few variants and once you see them in hand you will know the difference very fast...

1. The most common, Celluloid, is very easy to test for, just rub the scale with a rough cloth vigorously and then sniff you will smell a Camphor smell

2, Bakelite same test but a burnt electrical rubber smell oh yeah they are probably cracked, or will crack soon

3. Horn can be black, can be translucent, can even look like Tortoise shell, and is the most likely to fool you... smells like brunt hair if polished, buffed, or sanded..

4. Bone looks just like Ivory except is not as shiny and has holes instead of veins when looked at under magnification...

5. Ivory, every white scale wants to imitate it, but once you hold the real thing, nothing will ever fool you again... Look for extreme thinness of the scales less than 1/8 thick very flat, usually cracked :mad: Look for imperfections in the color and veins... very very lightweight and often warped...

6. Real Tortoise shell, very, very, thin, and look for the imperfection in the patterns, this is one that can still fool me... Mostly I rule out everything else first then decide...

7. Very few vintage razors have plastic scales... and hey plastic is plastic everything now-a-days is made of it you should recognize it

Hope that helps some

 

thanks alot gssixgun that's very useful i'm going to have a look at them again tonight when I get home.