Quote Originally Posted by guillaume View Post
I have this "John Barrer" (bought in Sweden) which could be an example of counterfeiting??

That is impressively fake! A wonderful find!

It doesn't look Sheffield-made at all to me. The shape and proportions of the blade are slightly off, the scales are odd, and the mark is pretty straight-forwardly misspelled. The B and the R letterforms are different, and that is definitely two R's. (The B bows out more than the R does).

The typeface also looks slightly wrong to me.

That said, I assume it's a perfectly fine razor to shave with.

I actively collect antique fakes because it's a fascinating part of the history of production.

This one was probably made in Sweden to be sold on the Swedish market.

However, counterfeits or aspirational copies like the I. Barber razors were made in Sheffield and very possibly by the same workmen using the same tools. Their status as counterfeit stopped being scandalous 170+ years ago when John Barber died. At this point they're cool in their own right!