Thread: The Stub-Tailed Shavers

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.

I´ve got a Roberts, it´s a sweet shaver:

Originally Posted by manah

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

I know that cast steel was invented in 1740. However, what manufacturers first utilized this steel in razors?

Hi Folks, May I join? Almost my first straight razor:


She is much as she came to me and slightly cleaned and honed she is a keeper!
"T Hall" ceased business in 1830 in Sheffield.