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Treatise on Metals from 1833
I just ran into a book from 1833 that was digitized by Google that contains a lot of material about straight razor manufacture and theory. Very interesting reading...
The title...
A Treatise on the Progressive Improvement and Present State of the Manufactures in Metal Volume II Iron and Steel 1833
http://books.google.com/books?id=IIJRAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA31&lpg=PA31&dq="the+old +english+razor"&source=bl&ots=I_zzNKbGiv&sig=Jjkic fskNjcI6T2ZJWTMbu0wsMA&hl=en&ei=xx3MSvWRCJOltgfAna jfAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5#v=onep age&q=%22the%20old%20english%20razor%22&f=false
I'm going to have to present some excerpts as captured photographs. But, here's a teaser...
Speaking with disapproval about the quality of shave with razors with serrated edges (did I misunderstand?) and convex edges... "... what may inaptly be denominated scraping."
The best quote...
It often happens that men, groaning under this very useful and necessary operation, attribute their bleedings, and writhings, and contortions of face, to the badness of the razor, when the principal fault is in themselves.
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