Thread: KROPP EBAY SCORE

I saw a 7/8 Kropp razor on Ebay and since I've tried most of the other brands, I wanted to try a Kropp. The ad says it is a Vintage razor, magnificent blade and scales in MINT condition. Never used. I've heard this before but the picture looked great. Just got it and the ad was 100% on. It said it was never used and it is as shiny and clean as the day it was made. It had no bevel so I went to work and put what I consider a really fine edge on it. Took it out for a shave and there is nothing like a finely honed Sheffield for a nice smooth shave. It isn't fancy but just a really great razor. Very similar to my vintage Bengall.

Looks like you got a nice one! Enjoy!

Very Clean looking razor. Congrads on the find!

Great find! They are a pleasure to shave with. I found a few blades without scales. I put them in modern Torty celluloid. They have shaved very nicely and today I was touching them up on a Thury. Yours looks to be the full 8/8ths, congrats!
~Richard

Nice one.
So, Was Kropp not Hamburg-ground Sheffield steel?
I think some later Bengalls were as well?

They each appear a bit different in every example with the concave, mostly roundpointed turn of century Kropps and Bengals..

Like a German finished what an Englishman started?

No Offence, anyone!

None taken. That said, I haven't seen any evidence that Cadmans finished their Bengall razors anywhere but in Sheffield. However, the pre-WW1 Kropp razors were ground in Germany, although the post WW1 blades were completely finished in England - at least they said so on the box. I'm not sure when Osborne, Garrett & Co (the manufacturers of the Kropp brand) ceased trading but they were advertising razors as late as 1949.

If anyone's got contrary evidence about Bengall razors being finished outside of Sheffield I have an open mind and wouldn't mind hearing about it. Neil Miller could have answered this in a trice; it's times like this that his sad loss is keenly felt.