Skinner Warranted

I have been taking razors to my shop and getting them up and running, thereby taking them home and bringing a few more back.
Stuff I had really only displayed and never shaved-with.
Time to get them running..
An old Skinner Warranted. Seems obvious old regrind, yet to my eye, expertly-done.
Funny, it seems it has a long (cold-shut?) crack across the back side of the blade, up and over the tang, and straight-through the 'Skinner' in the stamp.

Definitely needs some old horn. Some sweet hard-rubber/Bakelite is on it.
Not correct, I think. Good for something else, however! :)
I think I have had this for close to a decade.........

Anyone know anything about Skinner? :confused:

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I have a very nice old Magnum Bonum in pressed horn by Skinner. I didn't see him in the 1787 directory of Sheffield, but in the 1822 one there are "Skinner and Barber, manufacturers of razors and pen knives, Edward st."
There is also "Skinner Samuel, Eyre-st" in 1818 directory razor makers list.
Could be one of the above (and could be they are the same one who moved and took a partner).

Thanks for that! :bow

Love the stubby tail. That is going to be nice in horn!

It’s a pretty nice blade, should really wow them in some nice streaked horn scales.

Interesting blade, Tom. Pretty cool...

Yep, interesting - and old from the stubtail. Don’t know if I’d want to shave with a razor called a ‘skinner’ though! (/H)

Cheers, Steve

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Originally Posted by dimab

I have a very nice old Magnum Bonum in pressed horn by Skinner.

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I'd like to see that one :)

Sure:
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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.

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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!

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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 :D

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