There’s an auction lot up for sale in Birmingham tomorrow which shows just what a wonderful faff analogue was/is.

Alongside a lot of Edison rolls and two Edison phonographs at the Biddle and Webb Auction is this beauty –

an Edison shaver, enigmatically described as

An early 20th Century Ediphone shaver on stand with collection drawer, together with another shaver machine with plaque ‘Home Shaving Machine’.

Fab, so what is it and do you want one?

There you go – reminds me of this cartoon from Alex Gregory of the New Yorker

Yay can view it today and buy it tomorrow.