Seems like a lot to pay for a urinal puck.Seriously, my grandfather used it exclusively but I've never had much joy from it. I'm not sure what its worth.
The vintage stuff is a whole different breed than the Williams most of us are used to seeing. I say pick it up. I have a puck of Vintage Williams and I really like it.
It's a great deal. Snag all you can get and run. Some of the best soap I've ever tried. I grated my into a stick. Vintage Billy is a different animal from the modern variety.
That's what I thought, but wanted to make sure. Smells a lot different too. Smells more like VDH maybe. Def not like Citronella. Bleh
Chris, the vintage formula is not the same as the current formula. There was a reason your grandfather used it exclusively because it was a good soap like the Colgate and Palmolive soaps of its time. The formula in Williams changed in the mid 1980s and that was when the Citronella scent was added. If it truly vintage Williams $6 is a great deal considering the closest modern equivalents to the original formula run around twice that amount.
Tip: Grind up the Vintage Williams and place it into a mug with a half soap and half water mix and let it sit sealed with a piece of aluminum foil and rubber band or Saran wrap to lock in the water for a day or two. The soap will absorb all that water and will last longer and be an even more efficient lathering soap. The mug you have seen me use in my SOTD photo was 1 and 1/2 pucks of Vintage Williams and equal water mixture with menthol crystals and it is still going strong since I started taking pictures with it. Great mix.
Oh I didn't know to look for that, ill have to check it out again next time I'm in the area. I'll def pick it up.
The one I have right now had a red square on the front of the box that said special offer. Do you know when that was from? Ill look up the plant when I get home.
Sounds like you have one from 75 or 76, the offer was for a pewter mug to celebrate the nations bicentennial. Those were made at the Cranford N.J. plant.
Marvelous shave soap came out of the Cranford plant. Williams moved their production from Glastonbury CT to Cranford in 1960 and it seems like it's harder to find soap produced at Glastonbury. It's out there, and I have some, but there's so much more from Cranford still around. Around 2000 production was moved to Glen Rock N.J. and then in 2002 the rights to manufacture Williams was sold to it's current company, Combe Incorporated in White Plains N.Y. The current Combe formula, which lists tallow as the second ingredient, and is believed to be an inferior product to the earlier versions that listed tallow first by a lot of guys, was started sometime in 2005.
