Thread: Special razor 18th century George Smith

Originally Posted by Euclid440

I picked this up the other day for $2 for the ivory scales, can’t read the stamp because of the rust, but now I think it may be older than I thought.

In Ivory, it was probably a nice razor once.

Interesting when the rust is removed! Seems to be a serious arrowing of the blade
Nice scales!

Originally Posted by Euclid440

Yea, don’t see those every day…

Still a nice find, no matter what happened to it… It’s all history and interesting trying to figure out, what was done and why?

Makes it even more, fascinating.

Couldn't agree more with you!

The transition from tang to edge (very distinct here) is from later regrinding, which was very common with the old ones after heavy use (otherwise they became very difficult to sharpen).

A little bit of extra information

Smith (“+SMITH”) | Fikira

Regards