That little 70 pounder is long Gone:)
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That little 70 pounder is long Gone:)
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b3...muchoivory.jpg
Attachment 18144270 lbs.? May not have had good balance for a daily user.
Nice work on the brushes!
May be hard to see but the slabs would pass as a petrified slab of some basswood I have. The Ivory slab on left shows so little grain.
This will be good for two if not three sets.
That's above my pay grade to know where this came from. All I know is I really like it and hopefully did it some justice.
Wade was the stamp of Robert Wade, later partner with Butcher (but only briefly; the partnership of Wade and Butcher ceased to exist by the ~ 1830s). The spine-stamped Magnum Bonum razors seem to be broad spectrum; all the same shape and heft, and made so far as I have seen examples, by Marsden, Greaves, Wostenholm, Wade, and maybe another that I'm forgetting. Zak has done some good work tracking the history down.
The grain in the ivory is lovely.
That Razor is a work of art, congrats well done. Simply awesome.
Once again, VERY nice work.
Mark, I wish I had your talent for creating beauty.
My talents ran the other direction toward tearing things up. ;)
I watched that razor during it's auction. It took off fast at the end as I recall.
Great old piece of steel and wonderful old ivory on it now.
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Thanks. It is very cool. I just wish it was mine.