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I cant quite make it out, I'm betting it will show up better on your computers than on my phone or in my hand with my failing eyesight.
Its a nice blade, with the ever popular double cutouts. the tail is somewhere between stub and "modern" as if 1840 was modern!
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Found another pretty much identical but still difficult to make out, looks like the last 5 letters are a-n-t-e-r followed with a crown.
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Think now i got it... Instanter Patent tempered.
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Martin, you are positively amazing with your ability to find history and references. We would all be lost without you!
I thought I still had an Instanter but I may have sold it. Here is an image from the internet of another one, this has the same stamping mine did. It wasn't quite a crown on that one, more of a symbol that looked a bit like an H. I don't think I had collected any information on the maker.
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I've had this one for a few years now and been working on cleaning it up a little at a time. Seems like it's been my "back burner" project for quite some time. One of these days all in good time...
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That is crazy-old stuff, man! What? 1830's?
These things got melted-down and rusted to mother earth a lot through the years.
To see some have survived is really nice! :tu
I'm rather fond of the oldies myself. But I will admit to parting with this particular one soon after I posted about it. Guy had missed out on one of my auctions, and I felt bad for him, so offered it up at what I thought was a bargain price. As I have said elsewhere, and will say again I'm sure, "There is always another razor out there somewhere!" :beer1:
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