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10-12-2010, 03:00 PM #1Hot Pies & Lardy Cake
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Seeing as we do not have one I have had a go at making one.
If you like it copy paste it into your signature. if you guys don't like it we can always have a rethink.Last edited by Evin; 10-12-2010 at 03:24 PM.
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11-22-2010, 10:18 PM #2Junior Member
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New to the forum and new to straight razors for the most part.
I was just given a JR&S razor, here are the before pictures (sorry for the craptastic cell pics). I will be restoring it in the next few days. more pics to follow.
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11-22-2010, 10:21 PM #3Hot Pies & Lardy Cake
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welcome to the club the JR looks like it has potental.
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11-23-2010, 04:55 PM #4Junior Member
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Thanks!
Any thoughts on what the scales are made of?
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11-23-2010, 05:03 PM #5
Welcome!
Looks like wood, or perhaps horn?
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11-23-2010, 06:48 PM #6Senior Member
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+1, it's hard to say with the pics provided. Anything traits that would point to one of the other is not visible in the pics. With the redish areas and 'grain' directions in the pics I would tend to guess at horn but that would only be a guess.
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“If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got.” (A. Einstein)
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12-02-2010, 12:11 AM #7Junior Member
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Newbie here - I just did an intro and figured THIS was the right place to ask my question!
This is a razor I inherited from my grandfather. He fought in the European Theater during WW2. I once read a snippet that during the war - the Queen of England gave the US troops a Christmas present - a shaving kit that included a bone handled straight razor. I often wondered if my grandfathers razor could have been from that shaving kit. I've never read anything else printed on the subject and can't remember the reference book as it's been over 30 years since I read it.
Any info is greatly appreciated.
TIA
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11-23-2010, 07:23 PM #8Hot Pies & Lardy Cake
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I'm no restoration expert but it's looks like wood. but someone more experanced will probably chip in in a bit.
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11-23-2010, 11:58 PM #9Junior Member
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upon further inspection I believe it to be horn. Any JR historians here? Why would it not have the star and cross mark? It only has the crown with V R under it.
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03-11-2012, 01:40 PM #10Senior Member
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Hello I have never see a 19TH century razor with wood scales out from the factury, wood is generaly remplacement home made scales, your razor's scales are made out black horn, VR is the stamp for the Victoria reign from 1837 to 1850, after that date they don't use the stamp mutch...I date it from the beginning of the 1850 Originally Posted by BluestedSRT
upon further inspection I believe it to be horn. Any JR historians here? Why would it not have the star and cross mark? It only has the crown with V R under it.
Last edited by charlie48horlogerie; 03-11-2012 at 01:42 PM.
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