Thread: Early Razors and Dating them.....or not

Originally Posted by Martin103

Very interesting post Zak, just goes to show you how difficult it can be to date these old razors, without provenance lot of guessing.

The only thing we can really do is to keep testing our guesses! Poke'em with sharp sticks at every opportunity!

So much of this stuff requires guessing!

If it weren't for all the archives of old newspapers, I don't know what we'd do. Finding dates for ambiguous search terms would take days with microfilm.

No I definitely would not want to date an old razor.

I mean they don't eat much and taking them to a movie is a waste of time though you still have to be careful how you treat them cause they can be very sharp with you. You also can't get a seat belt on them and in an accident you don't want them flying around the car.

I know almost nothing about this razo but thought some people here would like to see it and perhaps we can all get a small amount further education from yet another example

I have no idea how to get rid of that last picture

Originally Posted by RezDog

I have no idea how to get rid of that last picture

Looks like a Genco?

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Looks like a Genco?

Union actually

Originally Posted by RezDog

Union actually

Even better!

Originally Posted by RezDog

I know almost nothing about this razo but thought some people here would like to see it and perhaps we can all get a small amount further education from yet another example

Killer find!

1790's, very minimal wear for it's style and age, almost complete scales (just missing that one washer on the pivot). Oughta shave like a champ!

My WOLF razor is one of my favorites to shave with, and it's reliably smooth.

I never tire of seeing Voidmonsters razors, I hope one day he does a thread of his collection ! that would definitely be something to see.

Originally Posted by Brummel

I never tire of seeing Voidmonsters razors, I hope one day he does a thread of his collection ! that would definitely be something to see.

And not a nicer guy as far as helping with research on old razors. He, ScienceGuy and Thaeris probably have the finest 19th Century examples of razors that can be found outside of a museum.