Why is this tech going for so much money?

Rocket Man

Rocket Man

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Just wondering why this tech is generating such high bids?

It doesn't seem much different to all the other techs, except the bakerlite box seems mint.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/251112314843?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1438.l2649#ht_500wt_1287

251112314843
 
The nice case adds a little bit of value but not that much.

Another member here bought one of these from me a couple of months back, think he paid either £15 or 20 which is mid to top end for a tech, it did have a really minty bakelite case and it was that which helped it towards that end of the scale.

£40 (so far) is silly money and I suspect Press has guessed it right.
 
press said:
His first sale on Ebay.His mates are doing some heavy duty bidding for him by the look of it.
Watch out for the relist.
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Blimey I'd never even considered that people might get their mates to bid on items they have listed. Naive of me I guess. It's not a very moral practice though is it?
 
I can't work out why the price is so high either especially given that the razor is not in brilliant condition as described (it's lost the etching on the top of the head) and doesn't come with an original case.
 
If it was on US eBay I could understand it. It seems that any British Gillette here sells at a premium.
It is a nice early set.
 
Johnus said:
It is a nice early set.
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It appears to me to be an amalgamation of a late 1930's or 1940's case from ether a NEW service set or Thin-handled Tech coupled with a 1950's Ball-end Tech.

These links should show what I mean a bit further:

Case:

http://www.mr-razor.com/Rasierer/The%20NEW/1930-40%20NEW%20in%20brown%20bakelite%20case%20England.JPG

http://www.mr-razor.com/Rasierer/Tech/1940s%20thin%20handle%20Tech%20in%20Bakelite%20England.JPG


Razor:

http://www.mr-razor.com/Rasierer/Tech/1956%20(B1%20on%20blade)%20No24%20Tech%20England.JPG

and the head should still have it's original etching on (as per the last photo) to be described as in being in 'brilliant' condition.

It's feasible that the head and base-plate could have come from a later-version Fat Handled Tech (on which the head was not etched), but if that is the case then the razor clearly has the wrong handle with it.
 
Impressed. Think of all the time that it would have take to put something like that together. Sounds like some of the combinations that our fellow members have come up with. If part of it was an injector razor I think I would have known who did it!:)-)
 
I think press may have hit the nail on the head here. I watched the end of this auction, for a tech this is silly money. I just sold one similar but it wasn't a ball end, it was a fat aluminium handle. ajc347 is probably right, this is a cut and shut set.
 
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