Thread: The Boker Brotherhood

I get to join this club, thanks to the inspiration of Thug's covered tang Boker....had my shave earlier, stellar BBS shave, beautiful in the hand, and a reminder how much I like the smaller blades as well.

Vendor's Pic from Griffth Shaving:



Arrived beautifully shave read, think I'll be taking this one for a spin for the next couple of shaves:

That's nice Phrank. Griffith has some nice things at times.

Great addition Phrank!

A somewhat smaller blade than your norm.

Hello ladies and gents, first post ever on this site. Some mighty fine razors on this thread! I just got my first straight razor, upgrading from DE's and a shavette. I figured this was the right place to post since it's a Boker and I'm hoping someone could give me some info. Mostly interested in the mfg date but knowing the model and steel would be great too. It appears to be carbon steel but I'm not an expert. I doubt those are the original scales, and the box I got isn't the right one. It's a Kropp box. I looked all over the web and logo charts didn't help much. Here are the pics:

Welcome to the forum. With razors you will likely never know the date of manufacture, only an approximate span of years it may have been made in. You may find the model from old catalogues and sources like that. Yes, it is carbon steel.

The Boker tree symbol has changed over the years so you may be able to match the tree symbol on the razor to the same design found here STRAZORS.com - all about classic razors - H.Boker & Co, Solingen. to find a time period.

Bob

Thanks Bob, great chart. Unfortunately I haven't been able to get a match, yet. Will do some more digging.

Originally Posted by Barbu

Thanks Bob, great chart. Unfortunately I haven't been able to get a match, yet. Will do some more digging.

Yea, I was never very good at matching the tree to any Boker I had either. All the Bokers I have shaved with have been very good though.

Bob