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08-19-2011, 07:43 PM #1Junior Member
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Help Dating a Bengall?
Hello all,
I work for a small museum in the north of Ontario in Canada, and we've just been donated a beautiful Bengall straight razor. Could any of you help me determine when this particular type of Bengall was being manufactured? I've attached some photos below
Sorry for their size D:
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!
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08-20-2011, 12:13 AM #2Senior Member
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Aside from the square point it's very similar to one of mine which I presume to be around the 1920s. Must get them both cleaned up to send off for proper honing, now that you've reminded me.
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08-20-2011, 01:13 AM #3The Great & Powerful Oz
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Definitely post 1890 because of the 'England' stamp.
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08-20-2011, 01:42 PM #4Junior Member
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The 'England' only appeared after the 1890s?
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08-20-2011, 08:01 PM #5Senior Member
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After 1890. Up until that point, only the name of the city where made appeared. But in 1890, the US Congress passed the McKinley Tariff Act, which among other things required that all imports to the US must carry labeling as to their country of origin. I imagine that cutlers (and other manufacturers) found it easier and cheaper in the long run to simply mark all their razors, knives, etc. with the country name whether destined for export to the US or not.
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08-20-2011, 09:07 PM #6Senior Member
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1892, I think, with razors made from 1893 on all being stamped (legal ones at least, there's no counting on what back-yard or black market shenanigans happened)
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08-21-2011, 01:19 AM #7The Great & Powerful Oz
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Act passed in 1891 actually, according to this
West Virginia Association of Museums || The Tariff Act of 1891 and What It Means to Museums“The white gleam of swords, not the black ink of books, clears doubts and uncertainties and bleak outlooks.”
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