Leslie Antique Razor and Rotary Hone

This was a scratch your head decision on where to put this post but since I'm mainly covering the hone the razor comes with I figure it goes here.
Anyway, I picked this razor set up on ebay and it has a bunch of proprietary blades with it some new some honed. In the pic you can see the razor as well as the cases that hold all the blades. Also the handle screws onto the hone portion. The hone is very hard leather over steel and comes with a Marvel Carborundum stick to put on the leather during honing. You can see the gears on both sides. When you turn the knurled knob the gears turn the strop portion and the blade runs back and forth across the leather. In the first picture you can see the small blade in place ready to be honed.
How old is it I have no real idea but I'd say turn of the 20th century or so. It sure is unique and I thought some of you would enjoy seeing such a unique honing system. It's marked Leslie, Boston Mass.
I know Ron has an interest in old honing contraptions like this so maybe he can shed some light on this unique setup.

Enjoy!
Phil

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That is certainly a unique contraption! I like it, I'd like to see something like that used...very cool.

It might be something like this contraption to sharpen DE razors...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6b2cs-pzJJE

LOL I love those old gadgets. Think of the time that was spent engineering them!
The one I have I believe only works on the proprietary blades the Leslie company made. They are small little blades. I'll try to take a short movie of it working and post it:-)
You know I hate to admit it but I bought it just because I was so curious about it and had never seen anything like it before. That and I didn't pay very much for it.

Red I was on ebay tonight and found an old honer like the one in the video you posted. I think I'll pick it up just to see if it really works.