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    Quote Originally Posted by Fikira View Post
    Actually, a Samuel Norris (1745 - 1817), his parents were Matthew Norris and Catherine Fox.
    True it depends on the dating of the razor - it's obviously not old enough to predate the Fox & Norris partnership but as Neil brought up in one of the threads a while ago somewhere between 1787 and 1797 the mark was passed on from the partnership to Samuel Norris.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ScienceGuy View Post
    True it depends on the dating of the razor - it's obviously not old enough to predate the Fox & Norris partnership but as Neil brought up in one of the threads a while ago somewhere between 1787 and 1797 the mark was passed on from the partnership to Samuel Norris.
    Indeed, probably around the passing of John Fox around 1793
    Meaning to make an article of them for a while ow, but didn't find the time yet...

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    Richard, the best info I’ve come across so far for our strop boxes is a little snippet from an Etsy add:

    Crenet Fils manufactured various quality items such as razors, stones, cutlery and general toiletry objects between 1810 and 1830.

    Thanks lohar for the help with stamp, it’s nearly impossible to make out the last few letters on mine.
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    My lynx eye saw it. Italian collector Alessandro Beltrame, known on the forum as "ALTUS" has one in his box. You can contact him to compare
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    An attempt to taxonomy of the French strop boxes:
    Dater les plumiers
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    Sorry, i'm still not QUITE understanding what 'dip at toe' means... "slight hollow at the toe near hte spine" is what i gathered...but can someone show me an example, or draw me a diagram, cuz i can't see the hollow at that angle can i? (i.e. blade flat/long side facing me)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tjh View Post
    Sorry, i'm still not QUITE understanding what 'dip at toe' means... "slight hollow at the toe near hte spine" is what i gathered...but can someone show me an example, or draw me a diagram, cuz i can't see the hollow at that angle can i? (i.e. blade flat/long side facing me)
    The spine on a straight razor is normally straight or if the blade is curved follows the curve of the blade. On the razors in this thread the spine departs from it's line and has a slight additional dip/curve just before the toe.

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    dip how? So like, where the width of the blade is smaller at about 80% of the way to toe than it would normally be?

    If that's it then : OOOH i see it now, ok. Why though? i initially thought it was an imperfection or something.
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