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07-07-2021, 02:44 PM #1
This is a very good brand. They also did luxury models with ivory handles.
This one looks like a small one for me.Thaeris - Florent - Aux Rasoirs Normands
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07-07-2021, 04:19 PM #2
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07-07-2021, 05:03 PM #3
Yes Vitry Freres was a well known cutlery from Nogent.
They existed min. since middle 1800’s. At the Exposition Universelle de Paris in 1867 they were listed as: „ Coutellerie en gros, instruments de chirugie, ……..“. In later exhibitons they are named as Fernand Schwob, maison Vitry Freres.
In Camille Pages book -La Coutellerie depuis l’origine jusqu’a nos jours- you can take a look in their polishing and sharpening workshop (for knifes) in the late 19’th century:
Source: BNF
As for dating your razor, I would say somehow in the early 1900’s.
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07-08-2021, 07:10 AM #4
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07-08-2021, 07:18 AM #5
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Thanked: 2By the way I compared it with my other aluminum scaled razors yesterday and now I'm sure they are absolutely not aluminum. Compared to aluminum they are more grayish, smooth and noticeably heavier. I think they are medical grade stainless steel. Doesn't matter that much tho, I'm thinking of replacing them either with black horn or some burlwood scales. Or maybe snakewood, snakewood's appearance ofter goes well with french straights' elegance.
What do you think?
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07-08-2021, 04:56 PM #6
Well (stainless) steel would fit since it was used for medical instruments as scales. Also the typical chirugical razors i.e. from Aesculap have been mounted in stainless steel scales because of the antibacterial effect. Stainless steel was used for razors and scales somewhat after 1910. So that would also fit to the timeframe of your razor imho.
As for the scales I would also tend to horn since this matches somehow the history of these old razors better than maybe a snakewood.
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07-08-2021, 05:11 PM #7
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Thanked: 599If those are the original scales, in good condition -- and they seem to be, on both counts -- I'd leave 'em (and leave new scales for "naked" blades). Just MHO... YMMV.
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07-09-2021, 03:33 AM #8Iron by iron is sharpened, And a man sharpens the face of his friend. PR 27:17
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07-08-2021, 11:59 AM #9