Thread: Please help with chronological order of some Wade Butcher razors for display

I'll take a stab at that, but some of them are really hard to pin down very precisely.

1. Anchor -- 1825-1840.
2. Frameback -- 1850-1880
3. Feather Edge -- 1840-1860
4. Diamond Edge -- 1840-1860
5. Old Army Razor -- 1854-1870
6. Original wedge FBU (reground) -- 1840-1850
7. American Razor -- 1860-1880
8. Deep etch Masonic -- 1850-1880
9. Double Concave -- 1850-1870
10. Concave (the actual name of the faux-frameback) -- 1860-1880
11. MOP -- 1900-1910
12. Celebrated FBU -- 1870-1890

Thanks heaps Voidmonster. I appreciate you taking the time and effort to provide date ranges and correcting me re the concave - which I knew as faux frameback.

How can you tell the FBU is reground? Was it originally a full wedge?

I respect your knowledge on this matter, so unless someone else has anything to add in the next few days, I will proceed and make the display according to those date ranges... I'm building a hinged glass door cabinet, with angled (to stop them falling out) wood with cutouts to accommodate the razors.

Im surprised to see the celebrated FBU were more recent than the FBU. I had naively assumed they would be somewhat of a similar timeframe.

Originally Posted by AndrewJM

Thanks heaps Voidmonster. I appreciate you taking the time and effort to provide date ranges and correcting me re the concave - which I knew as faux frameback.

How can you tell the FBU is reground? Was it originally a full wedge?

I respect your knowledge on this matter, so unless someone else has anything to add in the next few days, I will proceed and make the display according to those date ranges... I'm building a hinged glass door cabinet, with angled (to stop them falling out) wood with cutouts to accommodate the razors.

Im surprised to see the celebrated FBU were more recent than the FBU. I had naively assumed they would be somewhat of a similar timeframe.

The FBU looks reground to me because that style (identifiable by the tang stamp, both the verbiage and the lettering) was not made with a stabilizer, and it looks like something odd happened to the top of the spine, where the blade meets the tang. That flat spot is just weird. I'd guess it was modified to have a straight edge instead of a smiling edge. And yeah, those older ones were much beefier razors. Probably ground on an 8" wheel, so not very hollow at all.