I had no idea. About any of this. I tried and tried looking around on the internet and could find nothing. But then I found this forum.
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I had no idea. About any of this. I tried and tried looking around on the internet and could find nothing. But then I found this forum.
I hope that means that this is just the beginning for you.
I knew some but this place has opened so much more. For all my razors.
At this stage of the game, I would look for someone who can speak and read French to see if any records remain about the maker.
Beautiful product from my home town :beer1:
The place is still very rural much as it would have been 200 years ago. The place is not far from Stannington where another razor maker Revitt came from.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storrs,_South_Yorkshire
I have taken the scales off to clean them up and get all the gunk out from between them and make them look a little better then I'm going to work on the blade. I think im going to leave the patina. What do you guys think. Leave the patina or mirror finish.
I would never put a mirror finish on a blade that old. I would clean it well with 0000 steel wool and WD-40 and stop there. Honestly is you look through the forum at pictures of razors that old, they always look best simply cleaned. I would concentrate on the correct shape of scales and some traditional material, like horn or bone.
Yeah that's kind of what I was thinking is just clean not a mirror finish but I needed a second opinion.