Quote Originally Posted by Leatherstockiings View Post
That's a pretty slick looking razor, Phrank. I wonder what qualifies as a Dutchman razor.
It's a really nice razor. I wonder if the use of the word "Dutchman" might mean "German" here? Two reasons to think so: English razor makers faced a great deal of competition from German razors starting in the late 1800's, and as a result Sheffield razor makers responded with German branding like "Hamburg Ring" etchings (although the "Hamburg Ring" branding was used for hollow ground razors). Second, the word "Dutch" was once used to mean "German," as in "Pennsylvania Dutch." This because "German" in German is "Deutsch." So, it seems possible to me that "Dutchman" here is intended to connote German razor craftsmanship.

(One argument against this theory though is that the word "Dutch" for "German" was apparently mostly an Americanism after the Netherlands split from Germany, and sources I can find claim that the English used the word "Dutch" to mean "from Holland" after that.)