boker and joseph rodgers and sons help

hi I am a new member just getting started with all the straight razor malarkey and as such I have picked up a few razors to practice restoring on.

the boker razor had plane cow bone scales that are unfortunately smashed and the Sheffield had black plastic looking scales again broken.

I was wondering if anyone had any info on them, such as their approximate dates and so on, I know it’s one of "those" questions but I thought I would ask anyway.

also I picked up a pair of tailors eye witness razors and a king kutter but the pics are blurry as hell so I didn’t bother posting them

cheers for any help


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Those are really nice and i wouldnt practice with those... Here is some infor on the boker
http://strazors.com/index.php?id=50&...d_co_solingen_
Bokers are great razors still on production today! They have been around for over 100 yrs
Now the Joseph co has been around for hundreds of years! They made anything with an edge since 1600s ... There is a plethora of info on them... They made knife and swords and razors for many kings!!!
http://strazors.com/index.php?id=47&...ons_sheffield_
Here some info on them

As far as dating... The markings is what determines... Somewhat the time period! Like boker tree changes depending of time frame etc! You can see in the links above

Here is the history on Joseph
http://strazors.com/uploads/images/rodgers.pdf

Joseph Rodgers & sons were granted the mark "cutlers to his majesty" in 1821, then it's post 1821.
It looks that the mark in yours reads (difficult to see in the photo) "cutlers to THEIR majesties" that replaced HIS and HER after 1850-1860. I cannot understand well from the photo but it looks something like half hollow. They introduced "full hollow" in 1880 then it could be between 1860 and 1880. Looking at the shape of the tang I would rather stay towards 1860 than 1880.

Hi thanks for the info

i have a few better pics of the stamps

Sssoooooooo I think I will put these guys away until I know what I am doing

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Originally Posted by clubfoot

Hi thanks for the info

i have a few better pics of the stamps

Sssoooooooo I think I will put these guys away until I know what I am doing

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I agree! Practice with other razors... :)