1903 Badger Shaving Brush
1903 Badger Shaving Brush
1903 Badger Shaving Brush
1903 Badger Shaving Brush
1903 Badger Shaving Brush
1903 Badger Shaving Brush

1903 Badger Shaving Brush

$98.00
No. J1281
• Silver-tip badger• Handsome dark mock-tortoise shell base• 3.5" overall

1903.

I was browsing in a Paris antique shop one winter afternoon when a fitted leather train case caught my eye.

It contained silver-handled brushes, boot hooks, a straight razor, several silver-stoppered glass bottles.

One bottle was different. Encased in yew-wood, with a handwritten date: 1903.

Inside the bottle, there was still the faint aroma of a gentleman’s cologne. Custom-made for a rich traveler a century ago.

Curiosity was eating at me. I bought the case and sent the bottle to a laboratory for analysis. They broke down the residue by gas chromatography. Identified its fingerprint through spectrophotometry.

The report said: an “old woody fougère.” Clean citrus notes, bergamot, “green notes.” The middle notes: clary sage, cardamom. The dry-down: leather notes, smoky labdanum… elemi, tabac, frankincense.

The detective work was impressive. So is the thing itself. Women like the way it smells on a man. Like a symphony that begins loudly, then soon slides into subtle, entangling developments that grow on them.

Or so I’ve been told.

1903 Badger Shaving Brush (No. 1281). Best possible brush (has been for centuries). Silver-tip badger. Handsome dark mock-tortoise shell base, feels good in your hand. 3.5" overall. Imported.

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Story

1903 Badger Shaving Brush

$98.00
Details
  • Silver-tip badger
  • Handsome dark mock-tortoise shell base
  • 3.5" overall

1903 Badger Shaving Brush (No. J1281).

Best possible brush (has been for centuries). Silver-tip badger. Handsome dark mock-tortoise shell base, feels good in your hand. 3.5" overall. Imported.

The Story

1903.

I was browsing in a Paris antique shop one winter afternoon when a fitted leather train case caught my eye.

It contained silver-handled brushes, boot hooks, a straight razor, several silver-stoppered glass bottles.

One bottle was different. Encased in yew-wood, with a handwritten date: 1903.

Inside the bottle, there was still the faint aroma of a gentleman's cologne. Custom-made for a rich traveler a century ago.

Curiosity was eating at me. I bought the case and sent the bottle to a laboratory for analysis. They broke down the residue by gas chromatography. Identified its fingerprint through spectrophotometry.

The report said: an"old woody fougère." Clean citrus notes, bergamot, "green notes." The middle notes: clary sage, cardamom. The dry-down: leather notes, smoky labdanum… elemi, tabac, frankincense.

The detective work was impressive. So is the thing itself. Women like the way it smells on a man. Like a symphony that begins loudly, then soon slides into subtle, entangling developments that grow on them.

Or so I've been told.