Thread: Rodgers with odd markings stamped on face of blade

On a nice bulky Rodgers wedge with blonde horn scales I just picked up. It has odd markings stamped onto the face of the blade.

I feel like I've seen these markings somewhere before and I'm just forgetting where I saw it and what it was.



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It reminds me of the Rodgers with the devanagari rendering of "wootz" (that is, the faux Sanskrit or faux Hindi) (this other thread is also related), but it doesn't read to me as devanagari script.

Ignore the dark 'smear', that's not part of the stamp. There are seemingly three separate symbols: the rightmost looks like << , the middle looks a bit like honeycomb, and the leftmost I don't know how to describe - like two stick men looking over a wall and waving?

I'm sure I should know what this is (either that I've seen it before somewhere or it was a strange dream? )

Any ideas?

It reminds me of the W&B Chinese razors with the phony Chinese characters on the belly of the blade. I'm pretty sure Rodgers made a version of that and I think that is what it is.

Saw that on the bay. Is it Chinese? Could not see it clearly.

I mean I don't read Chinese in real life, but it doesn't strike me as looking particularly like Chinese. I mean, if I were going to fake Chinese, even just from memory, I don't think this is what I'd come up with. But who knows. I searched through the forum and pulled up some threads with Chinese stamped razors, but didn't see any Rodgers (though at least one was mentioned but not pictured) and ddidn't find anything which looked that similar.

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

It reminds me of the W&B Chinese razors with the phony Chinese characters on the belly of the blade. I'm pretty sure Rodgers made a version of that and I think that is what it is.

That's exactly what I was thinking, there were lots of variants on them....believe you are yet again correct Jimmy....

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

Check out the last two photos in post # 5 for a clearer photo of the etching ;

http://straightrazorpalace.com/razor...eld-razor.html

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

Check out the last two photos in post # 5 for a clearer photo of the etching ;

http://straightrazorpalace.com/razor...eld-razor.html

Yeah, that's definitely the same one.

And it's also the same as this one: http://straightrazorpalace.com/show-...colley-co.html

(THough that's not a Rodgers, interestingly.)

Look on strazors.com it has same razor.

Seems all the Sheffield makers jumped on the bandwagon as 'Oriental' things were in fashion.

Here; http://straightrazorpalace.com/razor...ese-razor.html

They were obviously as good with Chinese characters and the Chinese were with English!
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