Thread: One I've Never Seen The Like Of Before

A curved , straight razor ? Isn't that an oxymoron ? Very cool scales , and washers . I think the starting bid is too high , and will discourage any bidders .

I had one similar, but, smaller, and with black scales...stuck in a big lot of junk I bought a while ago... I have no clue what it was. I took it with me to a flea market where I was selling some stuff with my friend, and someone offered me $2, which I took. hehe.

This one looks more curved than the one I had, and is much fancier.

Edit: i'll be darned, i found a pic I took of it

It's sure fun to imagine what it might be for!

And correct me if I'm wrong, but those scales look like they might be real...

Originally Posted by BKratchmer

It's sure fun to imagine what it might be for!

And correct me if I'm wrong, but those scales look like they might be real...

I was thinking the same thing on the scales. Undream posting another example that is obviously of the same genre really has me curious as to what the thing was designed for. I wish it had more blade and less corrosion. I might have gone for it just for the challenge of honing the thing.

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

. I might have gone for it just for the challenge of honing the thing.

It'd give you a great excuse to expand your HAD to conical slipstones!

I`m sure when i was a kid i went to a medical museum and saw somthing similar that the barber surgeons used to use to amputate limbs.....

I am thinking the same, if i remember correctly there was an exibit when I lived in MN with old medical devices. I think there was a display of an old barbers medical bag with 2 types of curved razors one with smooth edged and one with a serated edge. The bag also had some dental tools as well.


Any way it looks very much a good conversation piece...and would love to see it all shined up.

Originally Posted by BigIan

I`m sure when i was a kid i went to a medical museum and saw somthing similar that the barber surgeons used to use to amputate limbs.....

When I read that it turned my stomach .... I got this off of this Sherlockian site here . Nothing like that item in the kit but you very well may be right. Looking more closely there is an empty place in the bottom right of the case with a very similar shape to that 'razor' on ebay.


Medical kit of a ship's surgeon. Note the presence of the two hacksaws, used for sawing off patients limbs and the knives and probes for removing bullets and other foreign bodies from patients' bodies. The two long knives at the bottom of the medical case are Liston knives (invented by Dr. Liston in the Crimean War of the 1850s). They are used for cutting through flesh and muscle. Hacksaws are used for cutting through the patient's bones.

If i remember rightly the curved blade made it easyer to keep the cut straight as you had more blade in the cut to keep it straight and made it easyer to keep the blade steady as you pass the blade from one hand to the other as you go around the limb.

Wow, knowing all this now makes me want to buy it.