Thread: Need help with age and maker.

Thank you all for your swift and knowledgeable replies! I live in Sweden and picked up the razor at a local charity shop. When I first saw it i thought it was "homemade", it looks crude especially with the wood handle.
But when i saw the pipe, that looked like a tomahawk to me i thought that it might be tracable. I cant say that I can match it to any of the smiths that Neil so kindly suplied, but knowing roughly when its made and that its most likely of english make is good enough for me.
Again, many thanks!

I am bumping my own thread because I once again need to ask for your opinion. I came upon a razor very similar to the one i started the thread about. I took pictuers of the new razor next to the old one. This one also has a pipe, but also an arrow. Matching it to a maker how ever is not a simple thing but I assume that it is of English make. To my novice eyes it looks very similar to the old one, its larger and the tail is different. Would it be correct to assume the its late 1700s?
Also adding a picture of another razor i came upon, its marked Clark Hall, and from what Ive read he made razors about 1797-1823. From your experience is it closer to 1800 or 1820? I know that these things are hard to date exactly, but I would greatly apreciate any insight that you might have.

In 1797 Clark & Hall, fine razorsmiths, were listed as being at Sheffield Moor in Robinson's Directory listing for that year. Early razors were usually marked 'cast steel' and later 'warranted'. Partners were (probably - not totally verified) James Hall and Marmaduke Clark or relatives of theirs.

The names, especially the link between the two, seems quite common in Sheffield of that era. We also have a Clark, Hall & Clark giving way to Clark & Osborne.

You have a very narrow time window of 26 years - I doubt that you will narrow it any further!

Your other razor, with the arrow and pipe, looks like a George Johnson to me. It's on the list.

Regards,
Neil

NEIL, NEIL, HE'S OUR MAN IF HE CAN'T TELL YOU... then you might as well send those razors to me for disposal.

Thank you for the information Neil. My first thougt when looking at the yoiur list was Gerorge Johnson. When i looked him up I found that he was in buisness 1810-1855, and I thought that as it was similar to the first "piped" razor it was earlier than 1810. But as you said now and before its very hard to pinpoint exact date of manufacture.