1880 ‘ s maybe.....any help dating this razor...thanks !
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Here's one that's apparently a "Crookes", but not any of the Crookes mentioned here. Rather an "S. Crookes".
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It's got a G.R. crown stamp, so likely that dates it to the 1820s. It looks like a half hollow - I don't know if it was reground, I think some hollow grinds did start to appear in the 1820s. Though there is a mostly obliterated stamp on the one face near the spine.
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Maybe "T ? E L L" ?
The scales are pretty straight and actually some sort of honey horn, though they look a bit like wood in photos.
One side has a name scratched in, though I'm not sure what it says:
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In any case, does anyone know anything about "S. Crookes"?
Nice razor, probably a re-grind. I've seen "warranted to shave well" and the like stamped on the spine on various makers.
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Thanks! Yes, it does look like it could be the remnants of "W" before the "..ELL", so I bet it was some phrase of this sort.
We’ve all heard of eBay horror stories, but sometimes you win. I’ve always wanted a nice Johnathan Crookes, but never ran across one, at least before someone else did. There was one on eBay with collared pins and apparent corrosion, along with a small heel chip. I used the heel chip to bargain with the seller, and got it at a price that was still pretty high for a bone scaled, rusty razor. Rad strikes deep, lol.
Except that what it looked like isn’t what it is. Vendors image first. The ‘bone’ scales are wafer thin ivory with a lead wedge despite the collar pins, and 99+% of the the corrosion was some kind of ‘substance that cleaned off. It looked like old cosmolene but the razor has slight wear on it. I fixed the heel chip and have a very nice razor. It could still stand to have a proper cleaning and pin job sometime.
Very nice, especially the lack of honewear.
Being as old as it is, it's supposed to have a little patina.
I like it just the way it is.
Nice job on the cleanup.
Pete <:-}
Lovely old razor. Are the scales ivory?
Bob