Looks like a very cheap and flimsy box. My guess would be refill too.
What is this sudden fascination amongst shaving tragics (present company excluded) for vintage soaps?
Why do you think I agreed to have a baby? His bum is the softest stropping material known to man.I've started using vintage water for my shaves. Never had softer lather
Want some vintage Colgate soap? I'll use the tin but the soap just smells of soap to me and I know I won't use it.Great performance
Why not melt a few crystals into it ?Want some vintage Colgate soap? I'll use the tin but the soap just smells of soap to me and I know I won't use it.
Great performance
Looks like a very cheap and flimsy box. My guess would be refill too.
What is this sudden fascination amongst shaving tragics (present company excluded) for vintage soaps?
Vintage Yardley has such a great reputation that when an NOS puck came up at a realistic price I just had to get it.
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NOS puck at a reasonable price - how did I miss that!!!
Oh, that is right, I've stopped searching as I have a few ...
Now, how am I going to preserve and protect that paper label on the bare wood bowl ???
I want to use it AND preserve it people - it is such a cool bowl and label
Typical bloody happy clapper - wants to do the dirty deed and be forgiven
If you intend to use it then you're not expecting it to maintain it's full "collector" value except for your own collection.
In that case I would dip the cover with label into a satin polyurethane varnish. It needs to be really dry first and it only needs a thin coating.
Does result in a surface coating that can seen but will last for many decades while protecting the label.
The bowl just needs oiling from time to time. Oil won't work on the lid because it will eventually lift the label.
The alternative is to lift the label, dry it out and saturate it with something like supaglue (while not sticking your fingers together). Once dry the label is impervious to moisture or oil.
The lid can then be oiled and the now dry and protected label reapplied anytime you want.
I am sorry my Son but you are not.Yep - praise God that I am forgiven
At the end of the day (or more appropriately, at the end of our time, of which none of us know that day nor the hour) this is all that counts.Yep - praise God that I am forgiven