Thread: I'll show you mine.... Show me yours

Gosh, I've never seen a Touron that I would not immediately desire.
They are among the finest razors ever made.

Anyway, way to poke a bear...
150 y/o razors are still very, very abundant on flea markets, antique sellers and diverse auction sites. To the point that, mainly, I don't look at them anymore.
One in 50 is about 200 years old, that's the point where I may be ticking

That being said, if you know your thing, you can find old and crappy razors.
There's a whole category that I call the "French uggos". They are 200 years old razors which are weird, gimmicky, and crap. I love them
Butterfly razors are, for the most, a sub-class of this category.

Here is a family picture of some of my uggos


The leftmost butterfly I still have to restore to satisfaction. It has in common with the second one this groove in the scales.
Now I am pretty sure that they used red wax (there were residudes) to glue some cheap decoration and create the appareance of "high end" razors.
But the blades are pretty thin, their geometry completely wrong.



You will not that often time, they did not know how to make a spacer. Here what you have are scales made by sawing the bone in the middle. Sometimes there's no spacer, only a rivet


Looks nice though. But oh boy, it's crap lol.

The butterfly on the right I gave to a curious friend. Told him that even if he could hone it to satisfaction, he would shave once perfectly, and then it would become quite blunt. And that's exactly what happened. Most of these butterfly cannot retain their edge for long.

The third razor... Well, it's something else.
It came from a previous collection, whose owner was a H. VILLARD as engraved on the scales, and was blade V of a rotation. I got it with two other blades from the same owner, and still regret to this day that I did not get all of them (I knew too little at the time).

As a contrast, the three blades (the ones above) are from the 1820s and are all pretty good (one of them is a Dumas Ainé, a very well established brand)

The Wawick is a beast, the heaviest blade of my collection, reaching 15/16 at the bottom of the smile