Thread: What is your most rare straight razor?

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Tadross razors are an enigma...I have a wild one as well. Will try to get it on here!

HEY, I got one of those...

No not a Boker
I have a Hibbard & Spencer Golden Rod with a monkey tail

mine are all rare ( rarely see sunlight each )
toward the top of the list would be these
JA Westa - even rarer are the scales or a picture of them


Acier Fondu


Silver steel


J.Gibbson & Sons - in Ivory


a W&B with a nice waist line


Peroux Cognet Theirs


GB Anchor


the rarest of them all ( to me only ) is My Grandfathers GAMERX

I can only hope the scales last as the back scale is cracking already

i have several others that may be rare also but these seam to stand out for me

Everyone's heard of J A Henckels. Who's ever heard of Otto Henckels? Here's one of his razors - etched for a New Zealand general store in the 1890s. Henckels sold Solingen-made cutlery in Sydney at this time according to newspaper ads and a report of a theft on their premises at 42 Market St. This razor is rare but not screamingly valuable - however, it's a great shaver

Mappin & Webb dressed in Ivory 1859.

Fantastical Jamie, those are beautiful!

But just as a side comment, I am always impressed with the razor cases made to hold these 'gentleman's pairs' and would dearly love to see someone make them again!

Cheers, Steve

NOS Yukio Kamijo

Originally Posted by Steve56

Fantastical Jamie, those are beautiful!

But just as a side comment, I am always impressed with the razor cases made to hold these 'gentleman's pairs' and would dearly love to see someone make them again!

Cheers, Steve

Steve, absolutely those razor boxes are just as interesting as the razor itself, It would be a nice touch if a few modern custom makers offered these, I know this would be an added cost option that many would like if available.

Originally Posted by celticcrusader

Steve, absolutely those razor boxes are just as interesting as the razor itself, It would be a nice touch if a few modern custom makers offered these, I know this would be an added cost option that many would like if available.

Jamie I just don't know if I will ever see such a pair of razors. But when you also have the original box that contained them and then the original sale invoice. Well it just does not get any better. Of course I wonder why the purchaser back in 1859 did not use them. Perhaps they were a gift intended for a birthday or an anniversary and life intervened. In any event here they are in museum quality entrusted into your beneficial hands and I celebrate with you. Enjoy them my friend. They deserve no better place than to be in your company.

Originally Posted by BanjoTom

Jamie I just don't know if I will ever see such a pair of razors. But when you also have the original box that contained them and then the original sale invoice. Well, it just does not get any better. Of course, I wonder why the purchaser back in 1859 did not use them. Perhaps they were a gift intended for a birthday or an anniversary and life intervened. In any event here they are in museum quality entrusted into your beneficial hands and I celebrate with you. Enjoy them my friend. They deserve no better place than to be in your company.

Tom, It certainly gets you thinking has to why were they never used and what is the real story behind them? I was born in 1959 exactly 100 years after they were first made, now 159 years later they will eventually get their first outing tomorrow.