Thread: OLD razors... To shave or not to shave...

Below is an old and maybe not so rare (no clue) Clark and Hall. From what I've seen in a book at the library this puppy is around 200+/- years old. I didn't want to hijack another thread so I made a new one I know I started something simular to this a while back, but this I think is a bit different.

Now I'm not a true collecter of razors, like Lynn I hone and use everything I get so I know what it's like. I'll sell it if I don't like how it handles. Sometimes I get a group buy with a bit of icing with it. This is one of those razors that was a bonus to the group.

I'm wanting to keep this razor in as original condition as I can so when I pass it on later in life (or other...) It will still be a classic original. Would honing it up and shaving with it ruin this status? I wouldn't think so, but understand that die hard pure collecters would cry over such treatment.

I'm going to to do all I can to keep this is as good or better shape than when I got it, but I really want to try shaving with it

Any thoughts on this?