Thread: Special razor 18th century George Smith

The mark on the tang doesn't follow the "direction" of it :



And they are usually larger on razors of this period. Plus it doesn't look like "natural".

In my opinion it was made to mask an wear of the blade like this one :



Made it usable again from the nose to the end of the blade, and perhaps give it a more modern form.

But it's only a guess.

Originally Posted by Thaeris

Made it usable again from the nose to the end of the blade, and perhaps give it a more modern form.

But it's only a guess.

It is very possible I think!

Maybe it was to fix a fault in the forging...


It could also explain the fading of the "Geo." stamp on the spine,

and the fading of the "+" mark, maybe some metal was also removed of the spine


If that is the case, in the beginning, it would have been more like this


Darn, really thought I found something...
but hey, they did a very nice job, didn't they...

It's quite an ingenious fixing indeed (if it is one).

Yea, don’t see those every day…

Still a nice find, no matter what happened to it… it’s not a reground Gold Dollar. It’s all history and interesting trying to figure out, what was done and why?

Makes it even more, fascinating.

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.

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