Thread: Antique French Stubtail info

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.

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.