Thread: 17th century straight razors - artistic depictions

Originally Posted by ScienceGuy

Razors from the mid-1600s from the Kunstschränke (art cabinets):

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Great Googely Moogely! I need more pictures of that!

Originally Posted by Magpie

Great Googely Moogely! I need more pictures of that!

Here is more info on them. They were commissioned by Phillip II from an art dealer Philipp Hainhofer in the 17th century, and filled with many interesting objects, including shaving equipment. There are four razors that I know of, there may be more.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pommerscher_Kunstschrank

Here are more photos:

Here's another, from the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, mid-1600s.

I found a beautiful case of barber-surgeon XVII but unfortunately empty. I did some research to see what he could hold and I found interesting images of razors among the surgical tools

I'm glade someone here got that old case - I was bidding on it and then it disappeared. Last year I got one probably from a similar time period:



What is the source / age of the last illustration you posted? They look remarkably like one from a group of razors I used to have:

I bid on the one you bought, but I was so sad not to have won that I offered a direct purchase on this one. The last image is a french 17th century tradecard . Here is the whole picture: