Thread: The Stub-Tailed Shavers

That's a handsome old razor. It looks like it's a great shaver.

Here's one with no tail. Doyle's book has it as 1740. Can't get all the writing from the tang but it does say Paris in fancy scroll. Might say Gillet as well. Nice big copper washers still intact with ivory scales. I was just about to list it on e-bay as I saw one fetch over $400 not too long ago.

Incredible! 260 years old, and in amazing condition! Is there any temptation to hone it up and shave, or is this something that might be better left "as found", for historical purposes?

Doyle's book has it as 1740.

I'm sorry. But where did you find this?
Robert A.Doyle wrote about "Cast Steel" in 1740. But not about such razor.

That piece from the book is about how I place those dates as well, but hard to tell on some makes.

It is a fantastic looking razor

Here's my entry to The Stub-Tailed Shavers club. It's a JRD Huggins / Best Steel. JRD Huggins was a flamboyant NY City barber in the late 1700s to early 1800s. He was also a poet, and wrote many barbering poems that also doubled as advertising. He called himself the Emperor of Barbers and was often written about in the newspapers of the day. Anyone who was anyone in or around Manhattan was seen spending their days lounging in his Broadway shop. He eventually published a collection of barbering and other poems in 1808 by the title Hugginiana. (It'll be my life's goal to find an original copy for my shave den.)

Christopher

I have a few.

Robert's Warranted.



Another Roberts Warranted.



John Barber.

Nice additions guys

This thread caught my eye.Wonderful...absolutely wonderful.I hope I might be lucky enough to find a nice one and have it restored.These just look so cool.Thanks Dwarvenchef for starting this thread.I hope I can add to it one day. Oh and Nightbreed...really like your razor man.Who did the scales ? They are gorgeous !

I also envy your Columbia round point Dwarvenchef as I am a Dovo man.