Looks like a Real Beauty! Happy you have it! Glad it's not laying in somebody's bottom drawer, uncared for! "Happy Shavings," Darkbulb!
Thanks, I've decided that even with that funky looking baseplate I'll give it a chance and see how it shaves The handle will for sure be used though!
I've got something coming in the mail tomorrow so this will have to be my last haul for September. A couple of weeks ago I bought an Old Spice shaving mug from 1985. That's right, the one that's referred to as "cobalt blue". Almost all of the pictures I've seen are that of a mug that's very dark, in fact much darker than what is typically defined as cobalt blue, with the exception of one picture at the Old Spice collectibles website that shows a mug that's much lighter in color than what I usually see. Okay, so I buy a mug that's advertised as "blue" and it arrives and it is certainly blue but a very dark blue. From across the room you might think it's black but in good lighting or out in the sun it's obviously very dark blue. Now I've been looking for one of these (at a reasonable price) for over a year so I was thrilled to get one for $26 and even more excited a few days later to be high bidder on a "black" one at $23. The "black" one shows up and from across the room it looks exactly like the blue one but out in the sun or under a strong flourescent light it's definitely darker yet I can still see a bluish hue around the handle and the edges. There's a definite difference (albeit slight) between the two mugs but not one that you can easily discern in the pictures that are posted below. In fact, the more I look at the pictures the more it seems that the camera makes the mugs look identical in hue. It's only with the naked eye that the difference is visible. So what gives? Do have I a blue one and a black one or two black ones that aren't really black? Is the blue one the lighter shade that you see pictured on the Old Spice collectibles website and I just haven't seen one for sale anywhere? (http://www.oldspicecollectibles.com/Mugs/Miscellaneous.html). Or is this like trying to find matching socks in the drawer when after several washings the navy socks and the black socks all seem to be the same color?
No idea...the one you linked to sure does seem like a very bright blue in comparison. I think I can see a difference in your two as well - one being lighter/more blue and one being darker/more black. Very nice regardless. If I'm getting another Old Spice mug I wouldn't mind getting one of these.....
Looks great! Mine came today as well. For the first time in a long time I feel like a need to read an instruction manual to use a razor
I can actually answer that. The closer to an air supply a glazed piece is when it's being fired, the brighter the resulting glaze will be. The difference between the two could be as simple as the darker one was on the bottom shelf of the kiln, while the other was on the top shelf during firing.
Thanks - great offer but I think I found them here: http://straightrazorplace.com/gener...our-original-manufacturer-instructions-4.html