Thread: identify this razor name?

The only markings are a name...
Wm. A. Shul

And googling is only bringing up religious places and people. No razors makers. Not marked with country either.

Best pic I could get of the name but its exactly what I typed. Including the periods.


User grade razor with hone wear but still original collars, pins, and plastic black scales. Picked it up at a good price so I couldn't pass on it. Looking at collars and pins I could tell its vintage but the plastic scales shows it wasn't an expensive razor, but how old is hard to say. Guessing early 1900's. but who made it or where it might have come from?

So, anyone ever heard this name before?

Jerry

Have you removed the scales to see if any more letters are hidden?

Yes, I have Leonard. Took them off to clean and sand the scales down a bit. Deep scratches and a cupped shaped 45-degree edge with dings in the edge of the scales. Here is one sanded at 400grit. No extra letters or stamps in the scales and you can see that this is not just a black plastic. It has a very light smell of rubber but not as strong as some rubber scales I've sanded and the color of the dust is a yellowish brown. What is this material? Anyone?

bakelite scales perhaps?

Wm A Shul razors appear on ebay every now and then. Most are in about the same condition as yours.

Well, I'm afraid by the time I get the black and rust off the tang the name might not be there any longer. So I figured Id better have a reference to the mane. Thanks.

I believe hard rubber. Bakelite would have a different smell and so would plastic.

From the square-point and the way the name is sort of etched on, I guessing something made by or for the American market.

Yep. Im going with rubber too. After the sanding they sure feel like rubber. As far as the name i guess its up in the air but its vintage so at least its not a RSO.