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Working on this guy right now, any insight about the maker and date? It's a very meaty, hefty razor with definitely some kind of ancient carbon steel which is different than most other early period straights I've worked so far.
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Looked on:
https://acierfondu.wordpress.com/mak.../19th-century/
Stub tails did not have a blade that shape in early 1800's. I wonder if tail broke and was ground and reshaped.
I remember seeing another french stubtail in just like this form on google. So it may be a model of a transition period. What I'm more interested is the maker.
The name on the tang is probably a seller, not a smith.
"Le Sap" is far from all the major places were such blades were made.
If I had to hazard a guess, I'd say Thiers made (two clues : a bit "gauche" for a Haute Marne blade, no stamp near the pivot hole), 1850-1880.
