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

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    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

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    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:

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    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:

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    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:

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