Thread: What is your most rare straight razor?

I probably have some really rare stuff but I am not aware of their rarity .

Hear is a few which I believe are rare ish.

An Allisons
A Rifle razor
A Geo Wostenholm
Butcher stub tail , probably not that rare but love this one either way
Tally ho brass frameback with etching. I adore this blade too.
A stod. Hopefully one day it will look like voids.
A John Heiffor. The blade is heavy with a drop dead spine.
A Joseph Rodgers . Truly rare I believe.
A Charles Picklays in tortoise shell

Originally Posted by JOB15

I probably have some really rare stuff but I am not aware of their rarity .

Hear is a few which I believe are rare ish.

An Allisons
A Rifle razor
A Geo Wostenholm
Butcher stub tail , probably not that rare but love this one either way
Tally ho brass frameback with etching. I adore this blade too.
A stod. Hopefully one day it will look like voids.
A John Heiffor. The blade is heavy with a drop dead spine.
A Joseph Rodgers . Truly rare I believe.
A Charles Picklays in tortoise shell

Excellent! Another Stodart! Those came as pairs: one rhodium, one iridium & osmium (at the time, Wollaston could identify both metals but not separate them, so they always came as a duo).

@Voidmonster, definitely not the Stodart, psh, I've got one of those too...

As far as rarity, I have a tendency to get rid of stuff I see duplicates of, so a lot of it is one-off. Here's a few:

Referenced in Lummus' articles, a rather crude razor from the mid 1800s in Grafton, Massachusetts:



Early-mid 1800s, by Zimmerman in Vienna (Wien):



A LISBON-marked razor, but from the more common Thomas Warburton's father, William.



A razor either made for or as a tribute to the King in the early 1800s, by Gavet, who was "Coutellier du Roi"; scales inlaid in gold "He protects the industry"





A razor by Robert Wass, dated 1807, presented to Lord Milton (who was a guest of honor at that year's Cutlers Company ball in Sheffield)



A pair of razors dated 1831 and likely presented to Allen Wardner on his inauguration to the Vermont senate:



Somewhere I have a picture of a LeCoultre razor that is solid forged, i.e. not a frameback. I've never seen another one of those. But the idea of rarity for all of these is that I/we have not seen others on the market, so they may exist in good quantity but be buried in collections or stored away somewhere.

Nice! Looking at a Heiffor, I have a couple I bought at the same time.
The boxes are identical and are pristine. They actually 'snap' as you close them.
I expect the two have always been together. 'Original British' razors!
Likely pretty rare, I think?

Nice ones Scienceguy! I hoped you might be along!

I seem to be outclassed, so I will toss a rarity in here.....9/8 Geneva cutlery.

Like your new Avatar Void.

Here is a blade restored by Outback. Pic by Outback also. Probably more obscure than rare...John Cecil Cast Steel.

Originally Posted by Voidmonster

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Originally Posted by JP5

Like your new Avatar Void.

Here is a blade restored by Outback. Pic by Outback also. Probably more obscure than rare...John Cecil Cast Steel.

This is true! Who ever heard of or has seen a John Cecil razor?

Not me!
This is what I am talking about. Seldom seen!

I think we are just getting started!

Rare, seldom seen, unusual, scarce--all good, fellas!

Keep them doggies rollin'!