Printable View
Ive had this for awhile and if anybody has any info on the maker or around when it was made, looks early 1800s to me. when I first got it I thought this razor is just to new looking and maybe it was a reproduction or something cause other than the scales its pretty mint. I think we can all assume its English.
I can't see the leeters on the spine. Is that Paisley or Pasley? I found a Richard Pasley in Sheffield but spelled without the i. He was born too late to have made that thing (1849-1937) but perhaps he was a nephew. His father was Joseph.
Maybe post a close up of the name. Sometimes the letter stamps can fool you. Happens to me quite often.
I assumed this razor came from Sheffield England but could be Scotland. I've been online looking through historical records this AM but nothing yet.
Attachment 355360
Better pic
I think you are right about early 1800’s.
The patent tempered steel gives more hits when searching, but no luck on the makers name…
The razor looks very much like a Greaves I used to own. Possibly made by Greaves for Paisley??
Good point Mick. Maybe Martin Paisley was a habadashery. I have a Skinetolin razor which turns out to be an F. von Brosy-Steinberg. I searched and searched to no avail and finally criswilson identified the trademark stamp.
Skinetolin turned out to be a cosmetics company out of London that contracted the razor. Sometimes contract makers put their stamp on it even though the name stamp was the contractee's. Boker did that a lot with their tree as did Wostenholm with the pipe stamp.
Marshes & Shepard carried that grind style, as well.
Attachment 355374
As did Packwood
Attachment 355379
And James Johnson
Attachment 355381
And a number of others.
I have a I Am Good And Will Shave Well version also. I think mine is the Greaves version. I'll have to dig that one out.Quote:
Originally Posted by outback
Yep Greaves:
Attachment 355386
We know a razor from that time period could have been made from any number of young men. It was common for factory workshops to make razors for any number of manufacturers too.
Sorry this info doesn't help much.
I
