Thread: Skinner Warranted

Sure:

I've seen a few Skinner razors here and there.

(I think I have one? Oh dear, that's what it's come to...)

Most likely Samuel Skinner, a general purpose cutler in the biz since at least 1811, but not listed in the apprentice registry, which is odd.

Both yours, Tom, and Dimab's Magnum Bonum look to me to be from the latter half of the 1810's.

What ho! Indeed I do have one. It was in the “tapered blades and also recently acquired 18th century razors and also this Skinner” drawer.

My organization process might need some refinement.





Really. That says Skinner.

Most cool, Zak! Mine may have been much more like Dimab's before the regrind.
Looks like the 'modernization' included taking off material under the tang!

On the back side of the scales of my Magnum Bonum there are bust portraits of Franklin and Preble, which gained his fame for the Second Battle of Tripoli Harbor in the First Barbary War in 1804. The bust is identical to the one portrayed on the gold medal in his honor that was coined in 1805, so I guess the razor was made after it. How far after - that I don't know. For how long his fame has lasted? He died in 1807, and I guess after 1812 there were other battles to celebrate - so something around 1810 is definitely the right guesstimate.

This is very cool! Thank you both

I think I will head down to the workshop and get this thing started!