Thread: Rodgers with odd markings stamped on face of blade

Yup - I've got a Joseph Elliot's, "Chinese Razor"...which some interesting "squiggles" passing off as character on the blade....very common....

Originally Posted by sqzbxr

Sanskrit usually has the characters in each word joined by a horizontal line:

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Yes, Sanskrit and Hindi I can actually read. (As an aside, some hand-written devanagari omits the top line.)

Originally Posted by bouschie

Look on strazors.com it has same razor.

Ah, that is where I had seen it before. I knew it looked familiar somehow. Thanks! That was driving me mad.

NOW, if someone has a clue about this on old John Heiffor blades?

Originally Posted by sharptonn

NOW, if someone has a clue about this on old John Heiffor blades?

This one looks like pseudo-Arabic script to me.

I have an Elliot, a W&B & a no name Chinese razor's. The no name one is so "Sheffield"!!! I just saw it the other day but I guess I moved it because I can't find it now.

Originally Posted by benhunt

This one looks like pseudo-Arabic script to me.

There was some speculation!

http://straightrazorpalace.com/razor...or-blades.html

Then we have a razor with some very old Hebrew script on it...actually means, "Iron Cast Steel" IIRC...whoever owned this razor at one point honed what would have been a beautiful belly out of it...would have been an awesome smiling razor...still shaves like a dream though.

Joseph Elliot's Damascus Razor - ״רמשק ברזל מוצק״

Originally Posted by Phrank

Then we have a razor with some very old Hebrew script on it...actually means, "Iron Cast Steel" IIRC...whoever owned this razor at one point honed what would have been a beautiful belly out of it...would have been an awesome smiling razor...still shaves like a dream though.

Joseph Elliot's Damascus Razor - ״רמשק ברזל מוצק״

The shape of that is just beautiful!

Originally Posted by benhunt

The shape of that is just beautiful!

Yes, when I saw it on eBay my jaw dropped, for a second I thought it was the W&B Ottoman Egyptian & Royal Windsor Razor, from the Royal Windsor Hotel in Cairo, where that razor get's it name I assume.This I guess was it's rival made across the way in Damascus by Elliot...at least that's the story I like to tell...and this is one of those razors that seems to always deliver a BBS shave effortlessly.