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Looking forward to your impressions! If you picked up the bowl I'm thinking of, you got quite the deal! Hope you like it as much as I do!
I’ve found they are a little cheaper separately purchased, but you can get lucky. The sets are usually $120-130 from what I’ve seen, but that’s because it’s hard to find a NOS set of basically anything, from the 1930’s-40’s. The set I have was purchased in the $80’s, but I made an offer on a buy it now that I’d been watching for weeks and got a sweet deal. As for the NOS soaps, when you see them, they range from around $45-65. Watch those listings and make an offer, but here and there you will see them pop up for $25 and you have to pounce. You will rarely find a FULL bottle of aftershave, because even in NOS condition those bottles will loose a little to evaporation. Keep watching and you’ll see an aftershave for $20 pop up and you’ll have to snap it up. Pro tip: create saved searches on eBay and you’ll get notifications and should find something in a few weeks.
Awesome collection KJ! I also have one of the talc containers like the one on the left. It is definitely the most substantial and elegant example of a talc container that I've ever seen. Lenthric(another soap very similar to Yardley) had a very similar design to their talc bottles, but they were made of bakelite with a similar opening mechanism.
Do you know what the difference is? Different scent?
@churchilllafemme can you elaborate on Yardley Black Label? You're the only guy I know who has owned it.
Glad you bought the one on the left, it was at a great price and the one on the right wasn't much more expensive if I remember correctly! Good stuff KJ!
It has been awhile, but if my memory is accurate, the regular Yardley was a little more verbena green, while the Black Label was definitely darker and richer, with more lavender, geranium, woods, and patchouli.
Too bad you don't have any or I'd be throwing the kitchen sink at you to try it lol(not by violence of course)!
You might want to get some Black Label cologne and add a few sprays to lather made with a regular Yardley puck. I have done that with some colognes successfully.
