Thread: What is your most rare straight razor?

Originally Posted by SemperFi

Here's an Antonio Monserrat 14, it's my understanding he was Jose Monserrat Pou's father, and I've only seen 1 or 2 of these (I think Herman-Sashimi-had one in a SOTD a while back).

My big brother moved to Barcelona some time ago and I recently spent a weekend there. He knows I love flea markets, so he took me to a huge one. I saw plenty of Filarmonica's but they were fairly expensive. But this one caught my eyes and it was cheap, an Antonio Monserrat.

I believe that would be JMP’s father.

Oh my, I thought the candid initial question/request was about to poke some bears, but I have been seriously flabbergasted by some of the pictures of this topic. Nice work gentlemen

Originally Posted by Voidmonster

Excellent! That nicely confirms what I’d found previously, though it does look like your New York razor was reground slightly — that stabilizer doesn’t look original.

Mine also says ‘Independence’ on the pile side. To the best of my knowledge, there are only Philadelphia, Boston, and New York scales.

Correction:

There was also a New Orleans version!

No way! I thought I had all of them

Originally Posted by DNM

No way! I thought I had all of them

Me too, for the longest time.

Based on the blade styles, they seem to have been made over a pretty good span of time. Maybe as much as 20 years. I've seen a couple different style blades (that appeared to be original to the scales) in the New York pattern.

ohiri kamisori Not sure of maker too old making it old kanji and doesn't seem to have been translatable.

Originally Posted by rideon66

ohiri kamisori Not sure of maker too old making it old kanji and doesn't seem to have been translatable.

Any good pictures of the kanji?

Originally Posted by JP5

Any good pictures of the kanji?

https://sharprazorpalace.com/razors/...quests-27.html

Not sure if the modern Misono is related, but they’re cutlers in Seki City, Japan

https://www.chefknivestogo.com/misonoknives.html