Thread: Old Razor Catalog

Really cool. Does anyone have any catalog pages with hones ? Escher in particular.

Is there a date on the pages?

Pages 1702, 1703 from the catalogue of 1917.
I have from this catalogue one more page #1699, but there is no time to scan.

that' s what I love

Thanks for posting these pages!

It's gratifying to find that my plain Genco Army & Navy wasn't a low-end razor, but was right up there with the Fluid Steel razors.


Another thing, ...SLASHER!? Were there no tort lawyers in the 19th century?

Imagine a young executive at DOVO proposing a Jack the Ripper commemorative wedge.

Anyone else notice that they often discribe the scales are "rubber" ???

When we know they are plastic or whatever etc.

kind of interesting...


The pages are awesome though... man, to have been able to walk into a store and view so many and have so much competion between the makers at the time.

Thanks so much for posting those

Originally Posted by Earthdawn

Anyone else notice that they often discribe the scales are "rubber" ???

When we know they are plastic or whatever etc.

kind of interesting...


The pages are awesome though... man, to have been able to walk into a store and view so many and have so much competion between the makers at the time.

Thanks so much for posting those

There were hard rubber scales out at that time IIRC. So that claim would be accurate. I assumed I had a mixture of hard rubber and bakelite scaled vintage razors until I just recently picked up an old Bismarck in need of some serious work. The scales are indeed hard rubber as they're quite flexible; unlike the bakelite that after years of age are most often very brittle. So, I have many bakelite scales and only one actual hard rubber scaled razor at this point. I've also cracked an ever growing number of bakelite scales trying very carefully to drill out the pins.

Chris L

I did some research on wages awhile back. In the 1890s the average worker made 15-20 cents an hour and worked about 60 hours per week. So that works out to 9.00 - 12.00 a week, 36-48 a month, and 432-576 a year.