Thread: MAIL CALL BENGALL CAST STEEL Razor 6/8" Wedge.

You are absolutely right with the timeframe for the celluloid. But I have serious doubts that the scales are original on your Bengall.
I have more than two dotzend Bengall Cast steel razors in my collection and none of them is equipped with celluloid scales. 70 % are horn or pressed horn, 20% wooden and about 10% bone and other natural material.
Also the pins on your scales are not identical as far as can see from the pictures, the pivot pin is different form from the wedge pin, which is in most cases a typical sign for a rescale.

But anyhow – if you like Bengalls from different early periods – here is a picture I once prepared for a german forum. It shows the development of the shoulder on a razor in the early 19th century. Whereas the razors in the 18th century didn’t had a shoulder – there was one line between the tang and the edge of the razor without section, from 1800 on a small shoulder was formed that gets more and more pronounced in the first half oft he 1800’s.
So here are Bengalls from around 1770 on top (BEN-GALL written in two lines, how it is shown in Sketchley’s directory from 1774) to approx. 1850.

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Regards Peter