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BÖKER BOKER Solingen Razor Black Gold 24 Karat Gold 6/8" Bog Oak Wood
BÖKER BOKER Solingen Razor Black Gold 24 Karat Gold 6/8" Bog Oak Wood
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Special features: Carbon steel, 24 carat gold, Solingen, gold etching, hollow grind
Brand: Boker Böker Manufactory
Handle material: Bog oak wood
Manufacturer number: 140612
Offer package: No
Foreign product: No
Modified item: No
Inches: 6/8"
Product type: Razor
Country and region of manufacture: Germany
Color: Black
Department: Men
Böker Razor SCHWARZGOLD - 6/8"
BÖKER MANUFAKTUR
NOTE!!! When purchasing a razor, you will receive an alum stick from Osma as a gift!!!
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With our elegant Schwarzgold razor with black ruthenium coating on the base of a full 24-carat gold plating, we want to remember the extraordinary race mare Schwarzgold.
Schwarzgold was born in 1937 at the Schlenderhahn stud as the daughter of the stallion Alchimist and the broodmare Schwarzliesel. Schwarzgold was an exceptional horse in every respect. Contemporary sports enthusiasts called the English thoroughbred a galloping machine, wonder mare, and super horse. She won the Preis der Diana in 1940 by 6 lengths, and the German Derby in the same year even by a staggering 10 lengths. The classic Kissaszony race was named after her the following year.
Despite this sovereign and unprecedented superiority, it is assumed that Schwarzgold was never fully ridden out, i.e., actually always galloped below her actual capabilities. The reason for this and another fascination that founded the legend was the difficult character of the mare. Her trainer Georg Arnull forbade any otherwise usual use of the whip during training and racing. Everything Schwarzgold ran, she did voluntarily. In addition, Schwarzgold could only be used on sand, as she was impossible to control on grass.
Above all victories of Schwarzgold hovered the shadow of the Nazi regime. Waldemar von Oppenheim, the owner of the Schlenderhahn stud farm and thus the owner of Schwarzgold, was expropriated shortly after the victories. An international career for Schwarzgold was thus thwarted. As a broodmare, Schwarzgold gave birth to two foals. One of these two foals - Schwarzblaurot - continued the Schwarzgold line, in which numerous winning horses can still be found today.
To uncompromisingly do justice to the elegance and sovereignty of the mare in the razor dedicated to her, we had to come up with something. Finally, we arrived at the solution to fully coat the extra hollow and waved ground blade in the first step with 24-carat gold. Only on this base does the ruthenium coating applied by the negative process adhere optimally and receive its incomparable anthracite color and silky shine. Ruthenium is a chemical element with the symbol Ru and atomic number 44. It is an exceptionally hard platinum metal that is used only to a very small extent. It therefore matches the exceptional character of the namesake of the razor. Equally consistently noble is the handle material used. The selected and proverbially black wood takes up the attractive color combination of the blade and is worthy of the outstanding quality of the entire knife. Contrary to the catalog information, it is bog oak wood. Including certificate of authenticity and presentation display.
* Bog oak
The wood traded under the name "bog oak" is used in the production of knives to make high-quality knife handles. It is not a separate type of wood, but the wood of oaks that were trapped in the bog for a long time.
The wood of subfossil oak trunks
In moors, swamps, as well as on river and lake shores, oak trunks are repeatedly recovered that have often been enclosed there for several centuries or even millennia. These "bog oaks" are especially found in areas that once had extensive moor and swamp regions, including in Central Europe, where moors and swamps were still widespread in the Middle Ages. The trunks of the bog oaks used today are up to 8,500 years old. Bog oaks are subfossil structures: they are the remains of once-living organisms where the fossilization process is not yet fully complete—unlike fossils, which are usually over 10,000 years old. In individual cases, the recovered bog oak trunks can measure over one meter in diameter and up to twenty meters in length.
Characteristic discolorations
By being enclosed in moor and swamp or in the mud of river and lake shores, the tannic acid of the oak wood combines with the iron salts contained in the water, resulting in the oak wood becoming strongly discolored. The wood color can vary greatly from trunk to trunk, ranging from light gray through yellow and brown to deep black tones. Therefore, the color of bog oaks is irregular and varied. Another characteristic of bog oaks is that their wood is usually very hard, although the hardness also strongly depends on the age and storage conditions of the used trunk. Bog oaks are generally easy to work with.
High-quality material
Because of its interesting, multifaceted coloration, bog oak wood has been processed into furniture veneers for centuries. Its use as solid wood is rarer. Knife handle scales made from bog oak are considered particularly noble.
Collecting and saving on postage is expressly encouraged.
Information on product safety
CompanyName: Heinr. Böker Baumwerk GmbH Solingen
Street1: Schützenstr. 30
CityName: Solingen
Postal Code: 42659
Country: DE
Email: info@boker.de
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