Sheffield Straight endorsed on tang "Made Expressly for L F Carter"

Attachment 210654I recently became the owner this beautiful Sheffield straight with no makers name on it. Its 13/16ths with a large thumb notch with jimps. The tang is endorsed " Made Expressly for L F Carter". I am assuming it is from Sheffield, it looks like it. It may be Wade and Butcher as America was a big market for them. I would love to know the history of this razor. I guy named Billy from Texas has owned it for the past ten years and due to the fact that he owns over one thousand straights he cannot now remember where he purchased it. I am hoping that someone with knowledge of this razor reads this as I would like to know its history.
There are no other markings on the razor apart from what I have stated. Sheffield is not written anywhere on the blade I am just guessing it came from there. I just made these horn scales so they are not original.

Thanks
Phil from Sydney, Australia

Congrats on your purchase Hellion and welcome to SRP.
A picture would help identify the razor.

Welcome. If you look at the top row of icons in the posting box, third from the right is an icon that I believe is a picture. Click that icon and you will be prompted for your upload. Everyone here likes pictures. Hopefully it is either shave ready or you know where or how to get it shave ready. We do have a number of members down under that are very capable.

You never know about those Texans with a few razors!
Sounds like L F Carter was a retailer somewhere. Some pics of it may give clues as to it's origins?

Hi and welcome. Where in Aus are you. From the info you provided it has the made expressly on it but does it actually say sheffield or England. Those stamps help with time periods.

Hi & welcome. Everyone here is correct. Some pics might be of some help to us.

Welcome to SRP. thats a nice looking blade.

Sydney Mate, opposite side to you.

LF Carter was a retailer. I'm not sure where they were located, but every now and then you'll see something pop up with the name on it (razors and other stuff). All of the razors that I've seen with the stamp were sheffields. Maybe wade and butcher, maybe Reynolds rebrand.

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Sydney Mate, opposite side to you.

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Should be a couple guy's you way. Try for a meetup it will significantly reduce the learning curve. Is it a re scale it's hard to tell from the picture

Hi cirswilson10
When you say you have seen "Made Expressly for L F Carter" on stuff other than razors, what sort of stuff do you mean? Shaving equipment??
thanks

I've seen the LF Carter name on a couple of combs, a couple of hand held mirrors, and one hairbrush. I'm not sure of their age, but I'd guess early 1900s - maybe late 1800s. I've seen several straight razors on ebay with the LF Carter name on them, but I've never seen one in person.

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Quick search brings up this example in the wild...