Thread: Swaty provenance

Just a short note. I was trying to understand something more about Swaty provenance, starting from what you can read on the hone: sometime Austria, sometime Yugoslavia. I think that this doesn't reflect different origins for different hones, but just different names for the same place in different periods (decades). In 1879 Franz Swaty opened his factory in Slovenia, at that time part of the Empire of Austria (1870 map) and later part of Yugoslavia (from 1918).

So that would mean any hone marked Austria would be earlier than 1918?

Maybe. But the term Yugoslavia (Kraljevina Jugoslavija) officially started to be used only in 1928, so things are a bit more complicated than expected.

I'm glad we've got you around doing so much research!

Well now that I'm close to done completing my 7 day rotation I'm doing less bargain hunting and more of the culture part of razor. I actually am liking the history thing. I'll start looking too.

Swaty still exists and has a factory in Maribor, Slovenia. Maribor is called Marburg in German.

On the 2nd page of their catalogue there's some history: http://www.swaty.si/fileadmin/Katalog/pdf/ANGLESKI.pdf

However, some Swaty hones mention provenance from Wahring bei Wien (Wahring near Vienna).

My guess is Swaty had a factory there as well or moved from Wahring to Maribor.