Lund Cornhill Shaving Set

[robertelee2ndky]

Friends, I have received my newly acquired Lund Cornhill Shaving Travelling set. This is what I have gathered about Lund Cornhill. They are a nineteenth century company that started in the early 1800's and fell out after 1929, They specialized in turned ivory, boxes for jewelry and vanity, and later corkscrews and knives. I could not find other examples on the internet of leather bound travelling sets but several beautiful boxes. The set seems to be mostly intact but is missing the bottom cap of the shave brush and I assume it came with 3 strops or 2 razors as there is a Moore razor in one of the places. The scales of the razor are ivory but the brushes are bone. The beard brush looks unused! Not a single hair or show of dirt on it. The Moore razor still has the mirror appearance where the rust is not present. The strop with wood thumb grip is in lovely supple shape. The Criterion strop has nicks all over the one side I could not find much info on the criterion strop with the exception it was around in the early 1800's as well and was deemed a very good product. It still has a sparkly luster to it The Lund frameback has a decent sized nick in it.

So, now my questions for the well versed.

Should I breadknife trhe Lund to get it out and loose a ton of steel? What would be your approach?

What info is out there on Moore 22 Tichborne St. London? When were they around? I found that Pigall took over the address and shares the same stamp. When?