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05-09-2014, 09:26 PM #1Senior Member
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hives stubtail
im trying to find info for this maker and the middleton in my other post. anyone familiar with either? ill be restoring both and have no clue what the scales were like on this one so if anyone has another example from this maker id love to see it. I have seen others as well but none of the scales looked to be origina to the razors.
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05-09-2014, 09:29 PM #2Razor Vulture
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Cool! I suspect Scienceguy. Thaeris, and Voidmoster shall be along. They are really into those!
Post it in the stub-tailed shavers club!"Don't be stubborn. You are missing out."
I rest my case.
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05-09-2014, 09:36 PM #3Senior Member
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will do, I wanted to shave with it before posting it there, haha.
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Cool! I suspect Scienceguy. Thaeris, and Voidmoster shall be along. They are really into those!
Post it in the stub-tailed shavers club!sharptonn likes this.Silverloaf
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05-10-2014, 12:23 AM #4Captain ARAD.
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I'm away from my books and sources at the moment, so this is necessarily brief.
It's most likely William Hives, son of John, apprenticed in Stannington and freed in 1797. The blade dates to 1805-1815 or so. When I get back home I'll get some pictures of similar razors from the period in original scales.-Zak Jarvis. Writer. Artist. Bon vivant.
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05-10-2014, 12:32 AM #5Senior Member
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are you kidding me? I mean.... are you serious?! you just have this stuff neatly folded into the wrinkles of your brain?! you are amazing, that's all I can say! Originally Posted by Voidmonster
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When you spend a lot of time concerned with early Sheffield history it starts to sink in... Originally Posted by silverloaf
edit: here's a couple examples of what the scales might be similar to stylistically. I have a gut feeling they would have been slightly curved.
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Very interesting razor! Where do you guys find these relics? I've probably been to at least 20 different antique stores and the only old stubtail I've found is a rescale/regrind.
You didn't know that? You should visit more often! Originally Posted by silverloaf
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