Thread: Widest American-made Straight?

Originally Posted by 32t

Not a good picture best the best I have.

I look at that one and automatically reach for the styptic pencil and a box of bandages.

7/8 Clauss

Sweet stuff. As much of a sheffield steel lover as I am, in it's hay day the American steel was really, really good. Shumate, Robeson, Torrey, Cattaraugus to name a few, all fabulous shavers that hold an edge famously. That Queen 7/8 is so good I have said that I could throw all my others away.

Originally Posted by PaulFLUS

That Queen 7/8 is so good I have said that I could throw all my others away.

Then why don't you? The rest of us would!



April fools!

Yeah, I had plenty of helpers willing to help me dispose of the other 140 something.

You all have to realize that Henry Sears was a salesman/importer/retailer. Much like DublDuck, many others.
A Sears razor was made in England or in Germany. A queen is foreign. Yeah!

That Bartlett and Dow I posted was hardly made by an outfit which provided prize-winning seeds, plants,implements, and trees.
Yet they sold it. Aside, it is so strange, I wonder if it was not domestically ground of a foreign blank?
Would be nice to know.

Exactly why I didn't post this H & JW King.



A 8/8 razor with only his name and address on Broadway st. in Manhattan, NY.
A retailer of fine English products = Wade & Butcher.

No doubt about that one. It's signature gives it away!

I was looking for what I read about Sears. Early on he was an importer. From what I have read once the company name changed to Henry Sears and Son in 1883 they were manufacturing the razors here. At least that is what remember. I'll keep trying to find it.

Here is the largest J.R. Torrey I've come across. Unfortunately I had to remove about 3/32" due to a chip but it still measures 7/8ths.