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Ever Ready

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efsk

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Ever Ready should be known to all of us shaving folk, as they made some utterly fabulous Single Edge razors. More info will pop up later in this thread, I expect, or hope, actually, but just to pique your interest I'd like to show you my "New Chrome Strop Outfit". Comes with shipper (bottom part not intact anymore), a beautiful white Art Deco cassette, and contains a razor, a stropper, a leather strop, and two built in, hinged, bladecontainers. Utterly fablous state, if I may say so :)
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Ever Ready Streamline made in England is probably the best of the vintage single edge razors. They are built like tanks and very beautiful. They shave slightly rougher than the 1912 that is was loosely based on, but very efficient shaver. I had one a while back but traded it for a Gillette Aristocrat Jr and a 1941 Ranger Tech.
 
Thanks to @gvw755 I now own another pretty little Ever-Ready. Case is missing the front flap, but who cares when you open it and find this lovely little wood-handled shaver!
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Here is another very rare one. Look at the pattern on the back of the razor. The box has a rotating handle to close it.
Didn't have time to clean the razor. The Owner didn't wanna sell it, but after begging and mighty psychological harassment :hammer1, he finally gave it up with. This also had an effect on my bank account.
This strategy worked for me and I am planning on using it on Richard to sell one of his Multiplexes and also his Razor six, if he still has it :cool:

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Ever Ready 1909. Purchased this and a couple of days later won HR-1A(which got cancelled). I thought to myself 'What a lucky week!'
 
sɐǝɹpu∀ said:
Right. a) It's not about the noise the blade makes. b) 33 1/3 degree angle? WTF? I'll keep riding the cap... I shall not listen to vintage ads...

And... 33 1/3? Where does that come from? A third of 100 degrees? Is that a right angle in advertising circles?
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Well it is marketing and and not legal or technical writing. I believe they are indeed referring to the new experience of the thin steel shave and that includes the auditory experience. Nice thing about market language is we experience it as we individually do. I bought in. And it could well be the right angle of at least the razor business marketing at 331/3. Good catch!
 
Well, Anglo-Saxons "in general" were never really known for their math skills and certainly not marketers. I forgot who said it in WW2, but an Brit/American said: we beat them (the Germans) because our German engineers where better than their German engineers.
 
For a minute I thought I got the joke: 33 1/3 rpm. The playing speed of an LP. Musical blade and such...
But those weren't introduced until 1948 Wikipedia tells me...
 
sɐǝɹpu∀ said:
For a minute I thought I got the joke: 33 1/3 rpm. The playing speed of an LP. Musical blade and such...
But those weren't introduced until 1948 Wikipedia tells me...
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33 1/3 actually began in 1927, but was for the sound for movies, not music,... so that doesn't make sense either. :confused:
 
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