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  1. About numbers on H.Boker "King Cutter" razors.

    by , 11-24-2011 at 02:55 AM
    Quote Originally Posted by manah View Post
    I've spent some time.
    And I've found it.
    There were the "King Cutter" models with catalog numbers 1925 and 1926.
    From H.Boker catalog, 1906:
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  2. William and John Birks.

    by , 11-24-2011 at 12:24 AM
    Quote Originally Posted by manah View Post
    So, it's not G. Johnson's mark. I couldn't find a dart near the pipe.
    And it's not a Wostenholm razor, it's not his pipe.
    And now. I'll try to tell my idea.
    I believe the razor was made by William and John Birks.
    It was a very old Sheffield company. The founder was William Birks, who became Master Cutler in 1766. At the beginning it was Birks, Withers & Sykes. It was one of the first enterprises to register a silver mark in 1773. It has a complicated genealogy,
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