Thread: Chas. Hufschmidt ?

I was wandering through an antique store today and saw a razor that I cannot find anything about. Has anyone heard of it?

On the blade it read: "Chas. Hufschmidt St. Louis, Mo." The other side had "cyclone 67" on it.

All I had was my treo with me, so this is the only image I could get.

I found out there was a Charles Hufschmidt in St. Louis around 1900 who was a big business guy. In 1896 there was a horrible cyclone in St. Louis....

Got me thinking... do people imprint, etch, or whatever you want to call it... their names or nicknames on straight razors? The place I bought this from said it is a Robeson Straightedge. So maybe what I'm looking at is a R.S, but with a custom imprint.

Is that possible?

It is possible. I was under the impression that while companies would put a vendor's imprint on the tang they would also have their own somewhere on the razor ? Robeson made a high quality razor but from the photo I wouldn't buy that one. If you are getting it dirt cheap and it turns you on maybe but there is not enough blade there to suit me.