Your rarest DE razors

My Seygus OC special edition is probably rarer (4 made IIRC?), but here goes:
Won in a raffle, when we were still doing raffles here:
The Gillette PanAm "The President Stateroom" razor.
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with original, unused tooth brush:
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riverrun said:
My Seygus OC special edition is probably rarer (4 made IIRC?), but here goes:
Won in a raffle, when we were still doing raffles here:
The Gillette PanAm "The President Stateroom" razor.
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with original, unused tooth brush:
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Now that was a raffle I would love to have won.
The big question is.
How does it shave Andreas and what year was it made?
Simply gorgeous hardware. :)
 
Wayne Pritchard said:
Now that was a raffle I would love to have won.
The big question is.
How does it shave Andreas and what year was it made?
Simply gorgeous hardware. :)
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Z4 - last quarter 1954
It's a Tech and it shaves like a Tech.
Even with a PanAm Stateroom ticket, they didn't give away TTO razors...
Here a United Airlines example of the 'Stateroom' - it's No. 5 at the back...
PanAm's staterooms where at the front (No. 1)
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These look fantastic
Congratulations
I would say my rarest razor is the BBS-1, a totally different category, but I had to wait on waiting list for over 6 months to get it.
Looking at your pictures I should probably sell it and try to hunt for one of these beauties.
 
I have a Tradere SB. I bought it with a view of keeping it forever. It was my second DE buy. It doesn't really get a look in now. Haven't used it for ages.
 
Floid_Maniac said:
This shall be a place to show your rarest DE razors, if you like.

I will start with an unbranded German open comb razor which came in a wooden box, covered with leather.
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Inside we see a print of an old German shop, owned by the Lang Brothers in the German town Saarbrücken, who sold steel products made in Solingen. With the razor came two little empty containers for razor blades, made of cardboard, on which the words sharp and dull are engraved.
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Probably this razor was a gift made in a small amount for good customers of this shop. I date this razor as having been manufactured somewhere between 1910 and 1930.
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Affixed on the razor handle there is a mosaic made of tiny silver and dark grey plates. As you can see in the photos, some of them have been lost down the years.
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I did some research but found not more informations as the Gebr. Lang were also manufacturer of straight razors. Their shop and the company don´t exist anymore and today at the same address Bahnhofstr. 60, you will find a Starbucks store.

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I guess this is now my rarest DE :) . Very pleased.

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