Quote Originally Posted by welshwizard View Post
Many of us use and treasure old razors. Some will have been passed down through families. Most of them will have a history that is completely unknown to us. Does anyone ever wonder when they are shaving with an old razor, what the first owner would have been like?
Rich or poor, professional, soldier or shopkeeper? Maybe he was famous, but most likely not. Did the razor cost a large percentage of his take-home pay? What sort have clothes would he have worn? For the very old razors, what would he have thought of space travel,jet aircraft or computers?
Or is it just a very nice looking sharp piece of metal to shave with?
Sometimes I wonder these sorts of things when I drink water: Who drank this water before? What kind of waste has this water helped rinse through the millenia? What wars has it helped purge, what fish has it helped bring oxygen to?

When it comes to my razors though, I like that they are old and sometimes wonder how they might have been sharpened in the past, but generally do not give it much thought