Thread: Looking for info on this razor

Posted pics the other day but...
On the tang it says Rahamin Penhas, Singapore.
Did some searching and found that a road in Singapore was named after him. Also he used to go by Abraham Penhas. Welthy merchant in Singapore but was Jewish. Still not finding anything about Straight Razors from this guy. Maybe it was made for him and he sold them?
Any help on this one? I'm about Googled out on it.

I wish I had something for you... The spine work is really nice, looks like a quality razor. Well done sir, tell us how she shaves!


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Every posibility it's just a Solingen razor with a aknowledgement to this wealthy Jewish merchant and importer of such items as razors from Germany, that's my guess and I'm sticking to it.

Well, thank you for your time and effort in the search. I found this info too but just couldn't find anything else. Wish it had Solingen on it or even Germany but I guess I'll just have to go with what your sticking with. Ha. About ready to put it on the stones and see what happens.

I have a clue about your blade. I found your post here about the blade when I was looking for information on Rahamin Penhas (same results as above 5 years previous). Initially, I was curious about the name after seeing it in a Netflix documentary "Greatest Events of WWII in Color." It was late in the episode on Pearl Harbor, during a montage of clips showing damage from the Japanese aggression after their infamous December 7 raid on US Naval and Army installations on Oahu in Hawaii.

The footage was shot as if it were in a car going past buildings on the main street of a town or city and it rolled past the burned-out, two-story ediface of a storefront with the name "RAHAMIN*PENHAS" in thin sans-serif letters. The star in between the two names was a Star of David inside but not touching a circle. Clearly, the damage was done days if not months before the film was shot, and the film was shot as though it was being done covertly, off-angle, in motion in a car without stopping to focus on that particular storefront. This leads me to believe that they were hoping to capture evidence that people were being dispossessed and victimized by the Japanese occupying force. I don't doubt that the Axis pact did little to help the status of a immigrant Jewish merchant, especially one that openly displayed his heritage in Singapore where the footage is presumably taken. My guess is that they survived the war, re-incorporated in 1946 and persisted until some unknown factor caused them to cease operations a second time.

Do you have any indication of when the blade was manufactured? A pre-war blade would be a rare find!

Looks to me to just be a merchant brand he bought elsewhere. Usually they put origin on it like Sears-Solingen but I guess where this guy is from they don't or didn't. The chances are it's from Germany.

This was from a few years ago. And after honing it and the edge falling a part i sent it to 3 other people to hone. They couldnt get it to hold an edge either. Ichalked it up to being more of a Chinese made RSO and reused the scales on something else.

Thanks for posting about seeing the name.

I’ve seen German, French, and English razors apparently using the same blank. Look familiar? The ERN is a 5/8 but I also have a 5/8 Le Grwlot 355 that looks identical.

Thiers Issard call the spine detail Festoon

The generic term for a worked spine that isn’t a forged pattern is ‘guilloche’, at least in French. It just means ‘carved’ I believe, our friend Aggelos could tell us for sure.