That Was A Close Shave

What You Need To Know

For a novice collector, just how many blades can we collect? Obviously, I know nothing about this hobby.

An American collector that I know told me that he knows for a fact that they are about 40-50,000 different kinds of razor blades made in USA, and another 50-60,000 kinds from rest of the world – so in total collectors can find up to almost 100,000 different blades.I have only about 500 different packs of blades. My blades are from all over the world from more than 30 countries

What has been your best find to date?

Usually the really valuable items are the old beautiful ones from the beginning of the 20th century with nice and special graphics on them, circa 1910-1930. Many are rare and very hard to find. An example of a rare one is "Tomy" from the British times in Palestine in the 30's (the Israel of today).
I found this item in a Flea Market in Tel- Aviv. The price was 1$ US because the seller didn't know that it was a rare one. Usually blade packs can cost between 1$ to 4$, the rare and valuable ones will cost from 5$ to 30$ . So as you can see, it's not a too much expensive hobby.
When I just started to collect I collected the plastic packs like the Wilkinson's packs I found in my grandfather bathroom, but within a year, after getting to know other collectors, I realized that the plastic ones are too modern and not worth collecting. The real interesting blades packs, that most of the collectors collect are made out of cardboard and those cardboard packs should have inside them nice graphic wrappers that were manufactured before 1960 and look the same graphic on front of the pack

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